Death of plague-research institute employee in Irkutsk region, authorities rule out outbreak
Summary
An employee of a plague-research institute in Russia's Irkutsk region died after severe pneumonia, with Russian media reporting suspicion of pulmonary plague while the Rospotrebnadzor health agency said it was pneumonia of unknown origin and found no pathogens linked to her work. About 200 contacts were placed under medical monitoring and a hospital in Shelekhov was quarantined, with authorities saying no new cases of dangerous infection have been found and the epidemiological situation remains stable.
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GOTOVO 200 ljudi nalazi se pod liječničkim nadzorom u ruskoj Irkutskoj oblasti nakon smrti zaposlenice instituta koji se bavi istraživanjem kuge i drugih posebno opasnih
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