The United States government is maintaining constant monitoring of a health incident reported in Siberia, Russia, following the death of an employee at a laboratory specializing in the study of pneumonic plague. Although U.S. authorities have called for calm, there is active vigilance regarding any potential risk of spread outside the controlled environment.<\/p>\n\n
Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that Washington is evaluating the situation with caution. “If something like this spreads outside of a controlled environment, it can spread rapidly. That is why we are observing and monitoring it closely. I do not believe it is a cause for alarm, but it does require attention and follow-up,” Rubio pointed out.<\/p>\n\n
The worker, identified in preliminary reports as Daria, was in her early twenties and worked at the Siberian and Far Eastern Anti-Plague Institute, located in Irkutsk. Unofficial versions suggest that the infection may have occurred after the accidental breakage of a test tube or during an expedition to areas where the Yersinia pestis<\/em> bacterium naturally circulates among rodents such as marmots.<\/p>\n\n Pneumonic plague can be transmitted from person to person, hence the concern this generates. However, it is a disease that can be effectively treated with antibiotics if detected in time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n For his part, the governor of Irkutsk, Igor Kobzev, reported that the official cause of death was “pneumonia of indeterminate etiology” and clarified that, after the biological analyses performed, no microorganisms related to the deceased’s specific tasks were found. The Russian health protection agency, Rospotrebnadzor, has stated that no other cases have been reported among the institute’s staff.<\/p>\n\n\n The Kremlin, through its spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, has urged the population to remain calm and rely exclusively on official information, ruling out any emergency situation following inspections carried out by specialized biosafety teams at Russian facilities.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" United States closely monitors possible case of pneumonic plague in Russia The United States government is maintaining constant monitoring of a health incident reported in Siberia, Russia, following the death of an employee at a laboratory specializing in the study of pneumonic plague. Although U.S. authorities have called for calm, there is active vigilance regarding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[17102,16136,17103,1076],"class_list":{"0":"post-168303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-biosecurity","9":"tag-laboratory","10":"tag-pneumonic-plague","11":"tag-russia"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Actions of the Russian authorities<\/h2>\n\n
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