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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

White House monitoring suspected plague death after 190 people quarantined in Russia

Daria Shipilova, 28, died in mysterious circumstances at a Siberian lab - (Social media)

The Trump administration is monitoring a suspected pneumonic plague death that has caused panic in Russia and led to hundreds of people being placed under quarantine, according to reports.

Darya Shipilova, a laboratory worker at the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, Irkutsk, was reportedly exposed to live Yersinia pestis bacteria when she accidentally broke a test tube containing the pathogen while collecting samples.

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