There is currently a concern about a possible plague (Yersinia pestis) case in Siberia, Russia, but it is important to distinguish a suspected case from a confirmed community outbreak.
A 28-year-old laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute died after developing severe pneumonia.
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Around 200 contacts have been placed under medical observation/quarantine as a precaution.
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Russian health authorities have not confirmed that she had plague; they currently describe the illness as pneumonia of unknown cause and report no evidence of a laboratory accident or new plague infections among contacts.
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WHO describes plague as treatable with antibiotics, and modern outbreaks are generally controllable with prompt diagnosis and appropriate precautions.
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There have also been confirmed plague cases in Mongolia earlier this year, where plague is endemic, but that is a different situation from the current Siberian incident. �
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For Sri Lanka: I don't find evidence in the current sources of a plague outbreak in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka does have active disease surveillance, including event-based surveillance for unusual infectious-disease signals. �
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A 28-year-old laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute died after developing severe pneumonia.
� AP News
Around 200 contacts have been placed under medical observation/quarantine as a precaution.
�Reuters
Russian health authorities have not confirmed that she had plague; they currently describe the illness as pneumonia of unknown cause and report no evidence of a laboratory accident or new plague infections among contacts.
� Reuters
WHO describes plague as treatable with antibiotics, and modern outbreaks are generally controllable with prompt diagnosis and appropriate precautions.
�World Health Organization.
There have also been confirmed plague cases in Mongolia earlier this year, where plague is endemic, but that is a different situation from the current Siberian incident. �
TNAQA
For Sri Lanka: I don't find evidence in the current sources of a plague outbreak in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka does have active disease surveillance, including event-based surveillance for unusual infectious-disease signals. �
World Health Organization
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