Woman dies after contracting plague in Irkutsk region of Russia

A woman has died as a result of the plague in the Irkutsk region of Russia in eastern Siberia. The governor of the Buryatia region, Alexei Zydenov, said in an online service on Friday that a woman had died of the plague in the neighboring Irkutsk region.

Local media reported that the dead woman was Daria T., a 28-year-old laboratory technician. Dozens of people reportedly had to be quarantined.

According to the online medium “People of Baikal”, the woman worked for the Irkutsk Institute for Plague Control. There she may have become infected with the pneumonic plague pathogen through a broken test tube. Up to 200 people with whom T. was in contact were quarantined, the portal reported.