A female lab technician has died in Siberia of pneumonic plague after breaking a test tube, as at least 200 people are put under quarantine.
Darya Shipilova, 28, was working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute, which is where she is believed to have contracted the illness from a broken test tube, local news outlet ‘People of Baikal’ reports.
Shipilova was admitted to hospital on September 29 and died two days later after having been placed on a ventilator, it is understood.
It is understood that as many as 200 people with whom she may have had contact were under quarantine, the outlet added, without elaborating.
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