{"id":2260,"date":"2026-10-09T18:52:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.myinstants39.com\/eu-urges-russia-to-be-transparent-on-plague-reports\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T18:52:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:52:43","slug":"eu-urges-russia-to-be-transparent-on-plague-reports-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/?p=2260","title":{"rendered":"EU urges Russia to be &#8216;transparent&#8217; on plague reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"schemaDiv\" id=\"schemaDiv\">\n<p> The European Union on Wednesday called on Russia to &#8220;share timely and transparent reporting&#8221; about the death of a plague laboratory technician in Siberia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think that it&#8217;s necessary to have reliable epidemiological and microbiological findings,&#8221; European Commission spokeswoman Eva Hrncirova said.<\/p>\n<p>The EU is in contact with experts from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on the matter, she said, adding &#8220;we follow the situation very closely&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"also-read print-hide\" data-ga-label=\"AlsoReadArticle\">\n<div class=\"element\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOfficial says WHO doesn\u2019t know exactly how lab worker in Russia died in plague case<\/div>\n<div class=\"picture\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/th-i.thgim.com\/public\/incoming\/d8y658\/article71557169.ece\/alternates\/SQUARE_1200\/AFP_D2J49T3.jpg\" data-src-template=\"https:\/\/th-i.thgim.com\/public\/incoming\/d8y658\/article71557169.ece\/alternates\/SQUARE_80\/AFP_D2J49T3.jpg\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/theme\/images\/th-online\/1x1_spacer.png\" alt=\"\" data-device-variant=\"SQUARE~SQUARE~SQUARE~SQUARE\" class=\"media-object lazy adaptive placeholder lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Russian news outlet People of Baikal reported Friday that a 28-year-old woman employed at a plague research institute in Siberia&#8217;s Irkutsk region had died of the disease &#8212; possibly after contracting it from a broken test tube.<\/p>\n<p>Russian authorities have played down the reports, saying the cause of the woman&#8217;s death was not confirmed and denying they are imposing anti-plague measures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian authorities have played down the reports, saying the cause of the woman&#8217;s death was not confirmed and denying they are imposing anti-plague measures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthcare.hibisports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}