News of Russia pneumonic plague and subsequent social media claims have drawn sharp reactions from both authorities in the United States of America and Moscow based Kremlin. All the debate is surrounding the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute and the nearby quarantined hospital in Shelekhov, after a worker at the laboratory was reported dead by local state TV. A nearby hospital has been quarantined, according to reports by local state TV.
Local media named the woman as Darya Shipilova, an employee at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East. There were conflicting reports about how and where the laboratory worker, whose age was given as 28, had fallen ill, but the authorities said she had died of pneumonia of as-yet unestablished origin.
