Moscow. A female researcher working in a lab in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, Russia, has died of plague. After the incident, the administration has kept about 200 people under medical observation and isolation as a precautionary measure. According to 'The Moscow Times' and Russian media reports, the head of the Republic of Buryatia, Alexei Tsydenov, has confirmed the cause of the woman's death to be plague. Media reports suspect that the woman was suffering from pneumonic plague, which is considered the deadliest form of plague.
Who was the woman who died?
The deceased woman has been identified as Daria (27 years). She worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute. On September 29, he was admitted to a hospital in Shelekhov, near Irkutsk, with symptoms of severe pneumonia, where he was put on a ventilator. He died on October 1. According to the report, he had told the medical staff that while collecting the sample, he had accidentally broken a test tube containing live bacteria. This information has been given on Telegram channel, officials have not confirmed it.
emergency meeting called
According to another claim, it is also being claimed that the woman had returned from an official visit to Buryatia. An outbreak of plague was reported here near the Mongolia border. Irkutsk provincial officials initially described it as only an extremely dangerous infection. To prevent the spread of the infection, around 200 people, including doctors, hospital staff and others who came in contact with the woman, have been kept under precautionary surveillance. After the emergency meeting, Igor Lobazev, the governor of the Irkutsk region, said that the people in contact do not currently have symptoms of the disease and their initial lab reports have come out negative. At present all the people have been kept under observation.
Ren TV quoted sources as saying that people who came in contact with the woman were admitted to two hospitals and 12 people were sent to the Anti-Plague Institute for observation. Some of these people are showing symptoms of the disease, but the infection has not been confirmed yet. According to the World Health Organization, plague is caused by a bacterium called Yersinia pestis, which is commonly found in small mammals and their fleas. People infected with Yersinia pestis often show symptoms after one to seven days.