Russian authorities have imposed “anti-epidemic measures” after a laboratory worker at an institute in Siberia dedicated to studying the plague and other infectious diseases died of a mysterious illness.
The researcher, a 28-year-old female laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia, in the town of Shelekhov, died after being diagnosed with a pneumonia of “unknown” origin, according to Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian agency that handles infectious disease.
CNN’s Fred Pleitgen has the details and CNN’s Omar Jimenez discusses the implications of the death with Columbia Mailman School of Public Health virologist Angela Rasmussen. Also, CNN’s Becky Anderson speaks with Vanderbilt University Medical Center Professor of Medicine Dr. William Schaffner about the mystery surrounding researcher’s death.
0:00 What we know about a Russian researcher’s death of unknown infection
3:21 Is there a risk of the infection spreading?
7:18 What more do we need to know and is the mysterious illness treatable?
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