Alarm in Siberia: Maternity hospital tests pregnant women for plague after researcher’s death

Also reported as: Irkutsk Maternity Hospital Screens Patients for Plague After Lab Worker’s Death; Also reported as: Article raises bioweapons leak speculation

• A 28-year-old female researcher at Irkutsk's local anti-plague institute died.¹
• A maternity hospital in Irkutsk tested pregnant women for possible plague exposure, The Moscow Times (🇷🇺) reported.¹
• The Irkutsk City Perinatal Centre (🇷🇺) required masks and barred visitors except pregnant women.¹
• The Shelekhov hospital was placed in quarantine.¹
• 189 people who had contact with Daria Shipilova were under medical observation.¹
  • Confirmed The World Health Organization (🇺🇳) said all contacts of the 28-year-old female researcher were asymptomatic.¹
  • Confirmed The World Health Organization (🇺🇳) requested more data from Russia about the circumstances of Daria Shipilova's death.¹
• Russian authorities had not publicly confirmed that plague caused Daria Shipilova's death.¹

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• Alarm in Siberia: Maternity hospital tests pregnant women for plague after researcher’s deathNewsbomb (🇬🇷) · Greek · 6 Oct, 14:21