Response to Russia's claim of a second death at the plague center
Russia denied reports that a second employee had died at the plague research center in Siberia. Health officials said there was no outbreak risk in the area, while the World Health Organization (WHO) requested additional information from Russia about the incident.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in a statement on October 7, said that a large number of reports about the Irkutsk Anti‑Plague Research Institute in Siberia had been published, adding that most of them did not reflect the truth.
Peskov said that the public should trust the official statements issued by Russia’s health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor.
Rospotrebnadzor, meanwhile, announced that there was no outbreak risk in the region and that the measures taken were being lifted gradually.
It was reported that about 90% of those quarantined after the first employee’s death were released, and that no dangerous pathogen was found in roughly 5,000 laboratory tests.
WHO is investigating the second death claim.
The 28‑year‑old Darya Shipilova, an employee of the Irkutsk Anti‑Plague Research Institute, had died on October 2. Russian authorities said the cause of death was an “unknown‑cause pneumonia,” but no definitive confirmation was made regarding a plague possibility.
WHO Director‑General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that they had requested information from Russia about reports that a second employee had also died of pneumonia. He said that Russian authorities had communicated to them that they unofficially denied the second case claim.
WHO said it was in contact with Russian authorities to clarify the cause of the incident, the pathogen that prompted the public‑health measures, and the reports concerning the second employee.
U.S.: Risk extremely low
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Erica Schwartz said the agency was monitoring the situation together with other federal agencies and was attempting to gather information on people who might come from the region to the U.S.
Schwartz said that, according to current assessments, the threat to the U.S. was extremely low.
While the exact cause of the first death in Russia and the claims about the second employee are being investigated, Russian authorities argue that no plague case has been detected in the region.
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