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Epidemiologist Calls Cover-Up as Pneumonic Plague Probe Expands
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- Public-health watchdog Anna Popova rushed to Irkutsk after laboratory assistant Daria Shipilova died from pneumonic plague.
- Authorities placed about 200 contacts under medical observation and quarantined a hospital in Shelekhov.
- Senior epidemiologist Mikhal Favorov called the broken-test-tube explanation laughable and hinted at a possible cover-up.
- FSB units escorted ambulances transporting people exposed to the lab worker.
- Reports said antibiotics ran out in Irkutsk, prompting residents to seek medicine elsewhere.