Three Russian hospitals and hundreds of people have been placed under quarantine following a fatal pneumonic plague outbreak, amid claims of a government cover-up.
Darya Shipilova, 28, is said to have been working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute in Siberia when she was exposed to the pathogen.
She was admitted to hospital on September 29 and placed on a ventilator but died two days later.
Concerns about a potential spread of the disease – which has a near-100 per cent death rate if left untreated – led to 200 people she came into contact with being quarantined.
Three hospitals in the region have also
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