WHO says Russia confirms death at research lab, no plague case registered

FILE PHOTO: A satellite image shows the Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk, Russia, May 8, 2025. An employee of the institute, Darya Shipilova, 28, was named by Russian media as the laboratory worker who, according to authorities, died from pneumonia of an as-yet unestablished origin on October 2, 2026, prompting authorities to quarantine about 200 people and causing public health fears on social media. Google/Airbus/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT./File Photo

Oct 10 (Reuters) - ⁠The World Health ⁠Organization said on ‌Saturday that Russia's state health regulator confirmed the ​death of a ⁠lab worker ⁠at a plague research facility ⁠in ‌Siberia and had informed ⁠the WHO that no ​case ‌of plague had been ⁠registered.

A ​laboratory worker at a plague research ⁠institute in Siberia fell ​ill and died in undisclosed circumstances on ⁠October 2, prompting authorities to quarantine about 200 people and ​causing public ⁠health fears on ​social media.

(Reporting ‌by Gnaneshwar Rajan ​in Bengaluru; Editing by Edmund Klamann)