World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus published a diplomatic statement on Thursday stating that his agency has no evidence of any outbreak of plague in northeastern Russia — but revealing that Moscow had been less forthcoming than appropriate and demanding more information.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday that his agency has seen no evidence of plague spreading after a suspected lab leak incident in Siberia, although he said this assessment was highly dependent on information from Russian authorities, and he hinted they have been less forthcoming than W.H.O. would prefer.
Russia snidely offered to help the U.S. combat outbreaks of measles as criticism mounts of Russia’s handling of a possible lab leak.
A spokesperson for the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) reportedly stated on Tuesday that the global agency had reached out to authorities in Russia for more information on a suspected case of deadly pneumatic plague tied to biological laboratory research in Siberia, but is still awaiting a formal response.
A female employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East has died from “pneumonia of undetermined origin.”
After an Arizona resident succumbed to pneumonic plague in a Flagstaff emergency room, health officials are cautioning residents to be careful around sick pets and animals.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed in an interview on Tuesday that he considered infecting himself with the Chinese coronavirus intentionally to prove that it was not as serious an illness as many people feared.
UK police are on the hunt for a man who goes walking dressed as a 17th-century plague doctor, as lockdown measure fines reaches 9,000.
“The people of God need their pastor to be close to them, not to overprotect himself,” Pope Francis says in an interview published Wednesday.
East Africa, which has so far been spared the worst of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, is facing its own life-threatening plague as hundreds of billions of locusts swarm, destroying crops and livelihoods.
President Trump has suspended all travel from mainland Europe. If this sounds excessive you clearly haven’t been paying attention.
An unidentified child in Elmore County, Idaho, is being treated for the state’s first human case of plague in over 25 years.
