Russia tells WHO no plague cases in Siberian city after laboratory worker’s death

Russian authorities informed the World Health Organization on Tuesday that there were no plague cases in Irkutsk, a city in Siberia where a laboratory worker died last week.

The woman worked at a plague research institute in the city. The information provided did not specify the cause of her death.

The notification to the WHO addressed the absence of plague cases in Irkutsk following the worker’s death, without giving further details about the circumstances.

No link between the death and plague was established in the information provided, and no additional findings concerning the worker were disclosed.