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The episode has attracted international attention because initial reports linked the lab worker’s death to pneumonic plague.
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The death of a 28-year-old Russian lab worker at Siberia’s Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute has sparked online panic about a ‘plague’, despite the WHO assessing the public health risk in Russia as low.
A woman’s death last week near a Russian facility studying the plague immediately put the world on alert. This is the plague, after all, responsible for the deaths of some half of the humans in Europe…
The agency said there is “no indication of a broader threat to the United States” at this time.
The patient travelled by road from the DRC to Kampala, Uganda, before boarding a JamboJet flight to Nairobi.
More than 4,000 people have died from Ebola in DR Congo this year.
For patients with inflammatory arthritis, holding certain disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), namely select biologic or Janus kinase inhibitor (JAKi) therapies, for two weeks at the time…
