Everything we know about the suspected plague case in Russia so far

This undated photo released in 2019 by the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, shows the institute workers in a lab. The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East via AP On October 2, an Irkutsk lab employee died from pneumonia. There's confusion over what illness the woman died from, with conflicting reports out of the region. The World Health Organization says the US is at "very low risk" of being exposed to the plague. After a technician at an anti-plague laboratory in Siberia died, Russian officials are attempting to calm global concerns. Daria Shipilova, a 28-year-old employee at the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia, died on October 2 after being hospitalized days earlier for pneumonia in Shelekhov, a nearby town .