ロシアの研究センターで研究員が死亡 ペスト感染の懸念 | BBC News

このBBC Newsの報道は、ロシア・シベリアのペスト研究センターで28歳の女性研究員が死亡した件を伝えています。この死亡により、病気が広がる懸念が生じ、世界保健機関と米国がロシアに詳しい情報の提供を求めています。ロシア当局は原因をまだ調査中であり、死亡者と接触した人々は肺ペスト検査で陰性だったと述べています。 死亡後、イルクーツク州で約200人が経過観察下に置かれたと報じられています。ロシアの保健監督機関Rospotrebnadzorは、死因を「原因不明の肺炎」と説明しています。

• シベリアのペスト研究センターで研究員が死亡
• WHOと米国がロシアに追加情報を求めている
• 接触者は肺ペスト検査で陰性だったと報じられている

The death of a worker at a Russian plague research centre in Siberia has raised concerns that the deadly disease could spread. The World Health Organisation and the United States have both asked Russia for more information on the circumstances surrounding the incident. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged Russia to release more information. "I think it's incumbent upon Russia to obviously share more information with the world," Rubio told reporters. "We're watching it very closely, hour by hour." The incident has sparked a flurry of speculation about the circumstances in which the 28-year-old woman died. Russian officials have said they are still investigating the cause of the death but those who came into contact with the victim all tested negative to pneumonic plague. Reports first emerged on Friday of almost 200 people being placed under observation in Siberia's Irkutsk region following the death. The lab worker, named in Russian media as Darya Shipilova, had reportedly fallen ill a couple of days earlier. Unconfirmed reports suggested that she had become ill after breaking a test tube containing the pathogen or following a field trip to a region where plague occurs naturally among wild rodents. But Russian officials have played down those reports. The country's health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said the woman had died of "pneumonia of an undetermined etiology". Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Steve Rosenberg. Subscribe to our channel here: https://bbc.in/bbcnews For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news #BBCNews