WHO seeks answers from Russia over laboratory employee’s death amid plague concerns

The World Health Organization has called on Russia to provide more information about the death of a laboratory employee in Siberia amid concerns about plague.

A senior WHO official said Wednesday that the UN agency did not know how the woman had died.

The official’s remarks left unresolved the circumstances of the death and whether plague had been established as its cause.

The WHO’s request focused on obtaining further details from Russia to clarify what happened to the employee.