WHO Seeks Details Of Second Pneumonia Victim From Russian Anti-Plague Lab
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The World Health Organization, the US and the European Union are seeking information on a possible leak from a laboratory in Siberia that studies the plague. The post Reports of a second possible death from the plague in Russia – The international community demands explanations appeared first on in.gr.
WHO requested information from Russia following reports of a possible second case of pneumonic plague related to a laboratory in Irkutsk.
In the Russian region of Irkutsk in eastern Siberia, a woman is believed to have died as a result of a plague disease.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday it had asked Russia to provide more information about the causes of death of an employee of the Siberian Plague Research Institute, according to Reuters.
The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) asked the Russian health authorities on Wednesday to clarify the information published in the media about a second employee affected by pneumonia with an indeterminate cause and the laboratory of the Irkutsk Anti-Plaga Research Institute. "The WHO has requested additional information to clarify the cause of severe pneumonia, to determine which pathogen motivated the adoption of public h…
The head of WHO called for a "light on media reports of a second employee with undetermined pneumonia." The Kremlin, for his part, swept the question, ensuring that the information relayed was mostly "false".
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