Russia rejects second plague scare as WHO demands answers over Siberian lab deaths
The Kremlin has denied reports of a second plague case in Siberia following the death of a researcher at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute. The World Health Organization has requested further transparency from Russian authorities to conduct a proper risk assessment.
Why it matters
Public health transparency is critical for preventing the spread of infectious diseases, and the lack of information from Russian authorities raises international safety concerns.
Russia has dismissed reports of a second suspected plague case in Siberia as “false information”, after the World Health Organization sought clarification.According to Al Jazeera, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the organisation had received reports of the suspected second case and had asked Russian authorities for more information.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, however, rejected the reports, saying the “vast majority” of media coverage about the situation was false.“There is a great deal of media coverage, and the vast majority of what the media are reporting about this situation is false information,” Peskov said, urging people to rely on information from Russia’s health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor.The controversy follows the death of 28-year-old Darya Shipilova, a worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia, who developed pneumonia and died last week.
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