A laboratory worker at the Irkutsk anti-plague institute, identified as 27- or 28-year-old Daria Sh., died after being hospitalized with severe pneumonia and placed on a ventilator. She told medical staff she had accidentally broken a test tube containing live bacteria while collecting samples; officials confirmed her death was due to an unspecified form of plague, and some media described the case as pneumonic plague, which can spread between humans via respiratory droplets. She was admitted Tuesday in Shelekhov and died Thursday. The Shelekhov district hospital was placed under quarantine while a special commission assesses the situation.
Health authorities placed nearly 200 people - 197 identified contacts, including more than 100 in hospital wards - under medical observation and isolation. Regional Governor Igor Kobzev, after meeting Rospotrebnadzor chief Anna Popova, said all identified contacts show no signs of illness and have negative laboratory tests so far, and urged calm. Neighboring Buryatia leader Alexei Tsydenov confirmed the death but said the infection was unrelated to his republic and that there are no plague outbreaks there. Authorities canceled planned public events and law enforcement opened a criminal investigation into potential health-safety violations that led to the death.
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