Report: Second Victim Dies From 'Plague Outbreak' in Russia
Baikalsk urged residents to avoid Shelekhov after unofficial reports of a confirmed plague case and a deleted warning message.
- Local media reported Tuesday that a second person has died from plague in Russia's Irkutsk region, though authorities have not publicly acknowledged this fatality amid mounting outbreak fears.
- The alarm began after laboratory worker Daria Shipilova, 28, died on October 2, reportedly after accidentally breaking a test tube containing live bacteria at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia.
- Authorities in Baikalsk warned residents on October 3 to avoid traveling to Shelekhov due to "unofficial information about a confirmed case of plague," while REN TV and Kommersant removed reports regarding the cases.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov urged the public to rely only on official statements from Rospotrebnadzor, while US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on Russia to disclose more information, monitoring the situation "hour by hour."
- Neighboring Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan have tightened health controls amid the reports, while online searches for "plague" surged 5,000 per cent from last year, according to The Times.
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Russia Accused of Covering Up Plague Outbreak After Travel Warnings and Lab Death Reports Vanish
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Russia accused of covering up plague outbreak — as travel warnings and news of lab death disappear
Russian officials have been accused of covering up details of a reported plague outbreak in Siberia, after official travel warnings to the affected zone were published and then deleted hours later.
A second person died in Irkutsk on full alert on suspicion of pneumonic plague after the death of an investigator.
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