Plague death at a Russian anti-plague laboratory

A laboratory worker has died of pneumonic plague in Russia. The worker was at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute in Shelekhov. Shelekhov is in Irkutsk Oblast, in Siberia. The disease is pneumonic plague caused by Yersinia pestis.

Nearly 200 workers were placed in quarantine after the death. The quarantine is the protective step reported with the case. The institute is an anti-plague institute. The form of plague named is pneumonic plague.

Yersinia pestis is the bacterium named as the cause. The patient was a lab worker at the institute. The outcome for that worker is death. The outcome for the wider group is quarantine of nearly 200 workers.

The institute name is the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute. The town is Shelekhov. The region is Irkutsk Oblast. The broader area named is Siberia.

The report does not give a count of further deaths. It gives one worker death and a quarantine number of nearly 200. It identifies the illness and the organism. It places the event inside a laboratory institute.

The health event is a fatal pneumonic plague infection in a lab worker. The public-health response named is quarantine. The scale of that quarantine is nearly 200 workers. The recorded facts are the death, the organism, the institute, and the quarantine.