[Video] Repercussions of the suspected plague leak in Russia... “Information must be disclosed”

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Go Hyeon-sil = Suspicions related to the sudden death of an employee in his 20s who worked at a Russian plague quarantine laboratory are not going away.

Darya Sipilova, a 28-year-old female employee of the institute, was admitted to the hospital with symptoms of pneumonia on the 29th of last month, and died on the 2nd of this month, just three days later.

When some media reported that the employee broke a test tube containing live pathogens in the laboratory four days before hospitalization, suspicions were raised that the woman may have died from plague.

Russian health authorities denied the suspicions, saying, "There are no patients with the plague," but anxiety grew even more as unconfirmed reports of a second death emerged.

The World Health Organization (WHO) judged that the public health risk was low based on data received from Russia, but requested additional data, saying, "Russia's provision of information is limited."

The United States also requested additional data.

Some are raising suspicions that the research institute may be involved in the development of biochemical weapons.

First of all, the U.S. government and experts believe that the institute has focused on responding to high-risk infectious diseases, but anxiety is not easily going away due to the past moves by the Soviet Union to develop biological weapons.

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