WHO says no plague case registered after Russian lab worker’s death
The WHO says the lack of a confirmed diagnosis remains a key uncertainty, with no sign of ongoing transmission.
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The WHO says the lack of a confirmed diagnosis remains a key uncertainty, with no sign of ongoing transmission.
Baylor College of Medicine Tropical Medicine Expert Dr. Peter Hotez tells Bloomberg This Weekend that the unexplained death of a researcher at a Russian plague institute raises questions about a possible pneumonic plague infection, although there is no evidence of a wider outbreak or biological weapons activity. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini, Hotez calls for an independent World Health Organization investigation and warns that the US lacks adequate plague vaccine preparedness. (Source: Bloomberg)
Russia has detected no health issues or dangerous micro-organisms after tracing all contacts of a woman who reportedly died of plague, the governor of Siberia's Irkutsk region said Thursday. Russia has not confirmed the woman died of plague, and Governor Igor Kobzev said in his statement she had contracted "community-acquired pneumonia".
The suspicious death last week of a worker at a research lab in Siberia that has fueled global concerns about suspected pneumonic plague is just the latest example of how Russia manages the official narrative. The Kremlin has long maintained a culture of secrecy when it comes to controlling public information, especially involving accidents – from industrial disasters to health emergencies, as FRANCE 24's International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert explains.
Plague is one of history’s most feared diseases, responsible for pandemics that killed tens of millions of people. Today, human cases are rare and can usually be treated with antibiotics. A suspected case of pneumonic plague in Siberia has renewed attention on the disease after a young worker at a Russian institute that studies plague and other dangerous infections died of severe pneumonia. Russian authorities told the World Health Organization that no case of plague has been recorded in the region. Still, the circumstances of the woman’s death and the precautions taken afterward have prompted international scrutiny, with the WHO seeking more information from Russia. We speak with Dr. Amesh Aldaja, Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. (Source: Bloomberg)
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would speak very soon with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the reported plague death of a laboratory technician, as Washington and the United Nations called for transparency from Moscow. Russian authorities denied that they were imposing anti-plague measures and played down the reports of an incident at a plague research institute in Siberia's Irkutsk region last week.
Fears that the death may have been caused by pneumonic plague has prompted calls for more transparency from Russia.
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he would speak very soon with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the reported plague death of a laboratory technician, as Washington pressured Moscow for transparency. Russian authorities denied that they were imposing anti-plague measures and played down the reports of an incident at a plague research institute in Siberia’s Irkutsk region last week. But Washington is showing growing concern, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling on Russia...
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would speak “very soon” with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the reported plague death of a laboratory technician, as Washington and the World Health Organization pressed Moscow for greater transparency and clarity over conflicting accounts of the incident in Siberia.
The death of a 28-year-old Russian lab worker at Siberia’s Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute has sparked online panic about a ‘plague’, despite the WHO assessing the public health risk in Russia as low. Unverified claims about how she became ill, including a laboratory accident involving a test tube, are circulating online. Misleading posts and out-of-context videos have also fuelled speculation and fear. Vedika Bahl goes through them, and what we know, in Truth or Fake.
Dozens of people have been quarantined over a suspected case of the plague in Russia’s Siberia.
The US says it is monitoring the case of a lab technician who died at a plague research centre in Siberia.
Moscow on Monday downplayed reports that a laboratory technician had died of plague, stressing that post-mortem tests had not detected the disease, while Washington said it was closely monitoring the situation. Reports on Friday that plague had killed a 28-year-old woman named Darya Shipilova, who had been working for the anti-plague institute in Siberia's Irkutsk region, sparked alarm. FRANCE 24's August Hakansson reports.
A Russian agency links the lab worker's death to 'pneumonia of unknown' origin.