Staff member dies from severe pneumonia in Irkutsk after alleged plague lab accident
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A staff member of Russia's Institute for Influenza and other Infectious Diseases died from severe pneumonia on October 2 in the Irkutsk province, allegedly after a laboratory accident involving a test tube containing the plague bacterium.
Around 200 contacts have been identified and placed under medical observation, while the World Health Organization rates the public health risk as moderate to low in Irkutsk, low in Russia, and very low in the WHO European region, noting no indication of disease spread.