# The World Health Organisation has urged Russia to provide complete and transparent information following the death of a laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia in Moscow’s southeast. Unverified reports suggest 28-year-old Darya Shipilova fell ill after breaking a test tube containing the pathogen or following a field trip to a region where plague occurs naturally. Russia says she died of pneumonia of “unknown” origin. WHO’s Christian Lindmeier says Russia needs to enable an accurate assessment of potential public health risk:
WHO urges Russia to be transparent on plague lab worker’s death [SOUND]
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