WHO Finds No Evidence of Ongoing Transmission from Suspected Pneumonic Plague Death in Russia

The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported no evidence of ongoing transmission linked to the death of a laboratory worker in Russia, where pneumonic plague was suspected as the cause. The WHO was informed of the death of an employee of the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East on October 2, following hospitalization on September 29 with severe pneumonia.