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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Suha Kidwai

Plague lab worker’s mother accuses Russian officials of ‘letting her daughter die’

The mother of a Russian laboratory technician who died after suspected exposure to pneumonic plague has accused doctors of “letting my daughter die”.

Darya Shipilova, 28, passed away on 2 October following an incident at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia, a high-security facility specialising in high-consequence biological hazards.

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