Russia Ends Quarantine After Mystery Lab Death: Nearly 5,000 Tests Done, but What Killed the Worker?
Officials closed a clinic and placed nearly 200 contacts under observation as WHO and the State Department sought lab results from Russia.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed "the vast majority" of media reports about the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute situation constitute "false information," warning of potential sanctions against outlets spreading such news.
- Reports published earlier this month alleged a worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died of "pneumonic plague," triggering widespread public health countermeasures by regional officials.
- WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the agency cannot conduct a risk assessment without more details, while Irkutsk Gov. Igor Kobzev declared preventive measures completed Thursday.
- President Donald Trump stated "we don't think so" regarding whether a "bioweapon" caused the death, while officials placed nearly 200 contacts under medical observation.
- A State Department report last year noted Russia is "extensively modernizing Soviet-era biological warfare infrastructure," raising historical concerns about biological research in the region.
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Russia ends quarantine after mystery lab death: nearly 5,000 tests done, but what killed the worker?
Russia has lifted quarantine measures in Siberia’s Irkutsk region, just one week after a laboratory worker died under mysterious circumstances. Authorities say nearly 5,000 tests detected no dangerous pathogens, and medical monitoring of the deceased worker’s contacts has ended. However, questions remain about what caused the 28-year-old technician’s death at the Anti-Plague Institute of Eastern Siberia and the Far East. Reports have raised conc…
Russian Official Says Quarantine Complete After Siberian Plague Lab Death
A local Russian official on Thursday sought to assuage the public’s fears following the death of a worker at a plague research lab in Siberia, saying a quarantine and other preventive measures had been completed with no dangerous pathogens detected. On social media, Irkutsk Gov. Igor Kobzev said that officials with the Russian health watchdog agency Rospotrebnadzor announced that “the full range of preventive measures in the region has been comp…
A lab worker at a Russian anti-plague institute died of a mysterious pneumonia, prompting quarantines. Now, the White House and WHO are demanding answers from Moscow. Here is why experts are worried.
The death of the worker from the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute has stirred fears worldwide.
Lifting the restrictions was announced this Thursday by the governor of Irkutsk, Igor Kobzev, after the completion of preventive measures triggered by the death of an official of the Institute of Pest Control Research of Irkutsk
The health warning comes back after the death of a laboratory technique The Russian authorities have L'articolo Plague in Siberia, revoked the restrictions to Irkutsk: "No danger, negative tests" comes from Dayitalianews.
The Russian city of Irkutsk is withdrawing preventive measures, taken following the death of a laboratory officer for pneumonia of unknown origin. The epidemiological situation in the region, has been explained, remains stable and presents no health risk. And all preventive quarantine measures have been concluded, has... Read more L'articolo Plague in Siberia, Russia withdraws the restrictions: "No risk, negative tests" comes from Five Columns M…
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