据报道，在西伯利亚的俄罗斯伊尔库茨克州，一名实验室工作人员因感染鼠疫死亡后，卫生部门对近200人实施了医学观察。相关报道援引了俄罗斯媒体以及邻近的布里亚特共和国领导人阿列克谢·茨德诺夫周五发布的声明，后者证实了该女子的死亡事实。
Health authorities in Russia’s Irkutsk region, in Siberia, have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died of plague, according to . The newspaper cited Russian media and a statement on Friday by Alexei Tsydenov, head of the neighbouring Republic of Buryatia, who confirmed the woman’s death.
此前，伊尔库茨克州当局仅将该疾病称为“极其危险的传染病”。茨德诺夫称该女子死于鼠疫，但未透露具体细节。多家媒体推测她感染的是肺鼠疫。报道还指出，伊尔库茨克州州长伊戈尔·科布泽夫在周五的声明中并未提及该女子的死亡情况。该女子身份及事件经过如何？
Irkutsk officials had so far called the illness only a “particularly dangerous infection”. Tsydenov said the woman died of plague but did not revealed details. Media outlets have described the suspected infection as pneumonic plague. reported that Governor Igor Kobzev did not mention the woman’s death in his own statement on Friday. Who was the woman and what happened? According to , the woman, Daria Sh. (27 or 28), worked at the Irkutsk anti-plague institute.
报道称，这名27或28岁的女子名叫达里娅·什，就职于伊尔库茨克鼠疫防治研究所。周二，她因出现严重肺炎症状被送往州首府伊尔库茨克附近的舍列霍夫镇的一家医院，随后被接入呼吸机治疗，并于周四不治身亡。
She was taken to hospital on Tuesday in Shelekhov, a town near the regional capital, Irkutsk, with signs of severe pneumonia. She was placed on ventilator support and declared dead on Thursday.
据称，她曾告诉医护人员，自己在采集样本时不慎打碎了装有活菌的试管。这一说法源自一个Telegram频道，尚未得到官方证实。历史上最后一次大规模鼠疫流行是什么时候？
She reportedly told the medical staff that she had accidentally broken a test tube holding live bacteria while she was collecting samples. That account comes from a Telegram channel and has not been confirmed by officials When did the world see the last major plague? The WHO says the bacteria is responsible for plague.
世界卫生组织指出，鼠疫杆菌是引发鼠疫的病原体，这种细菌通常存在于小型哺乳动物及其身上的跳蚤体内。人类感染该菌后，通常在1至7天的潜伏期后出现症状。
It is a type of zoonotic bacteria, which is usually present in small mammals and their fleas. People infected with often develop symptoms after an incubation period of one to seven days.
腺鼠疫是最常见的临床类型。历史上最后一次大规模全球鼠疫流行为第三次鼠疫大流行，始于1855年的中国云南，一直持续到1960年左右。
Bubonic plague is the most common clinical form of plague. The last major global plague pandemic was the Third Plague Pandemic, which began in Yunnan, China, in 1855 and lasted until roughly 1960.
世卫组织称：“目前，鼠疫在多个国家仍处于地方性流行状态。2019年至2025年间，向世卫组织报告的病例大多发生在刚果民主共和国和马达加斯加。”
As per WHO, “Human plague remains endemic in several countries. During 2019–2025, most cases reported to WHO occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar.”