Russian health authorities said on Monday that a laboratory assistant at an anti-plague institute in Siberia who died last week did not have plague, even as quarantine restrictions remained in place across multiple hospitals in the region.
Daria Shipilova, 28, a staff member at the anti-plague institute in Irkutsk, may have contracted pneumonic plague after a test tube broke in the laboratory, regional outlets reported, citing unnamed sources close to regional security services.
