Woman dies of plague in Siberia: regional official
A 28-year-old laboratory technician, Darya Shipilova, died of plague in Siberia's Irkutsk region, according to a regional official. Local media reported that she may have contracted pneumonic plague from a broken test tube, leading to 200 individuals being quarantined. The World Health Organization warns that pneumonic plague is highly infectious and can be fatal without early treatment.