A Russian laboratory worker’s passing has sparked global concern after conflicting accounts emerged about what really happened inside a high-security anti-plague institute in Siberia.
Darya Shipilova lost her life last week on October 2 after developing severe pneumonia and being hospitalized in Shelekhov, near Irkutsk.
Because she worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute, early reports that she may have been exposed to pneumonic plague prompted authorities to quarantine around 200 people who had been in contact with her.
