莫斯科周一淡化了有关一名实验室技术员死于鼠疫的报道，强调尸检尚未检测到这种疾病，而华盛顿则表示正在密切关注事态发展。
Moscow on Monday downplayed reports that a laboratory technician had died of plague, stressing that postmortem tests had not detected the disease, while Washington said it was closely monitoring the situation.
周五有报道称，一名名叫达里娅·希皮洛娃（Darya Shipilova）的28岁妇女死于鼠疫，她一直在西伯利亚伊尔库茨克地区的抗鼠疫研究所工作，这引发了人们的警惕。
Reports on Friday that plague had killed a 28-year-old woman named Darya Shipilova, who had been working for the anti-plague institute in Siberia’s Irkutsk region, sparked alarm.
新闻媒体《贝加尔人民报》援引与地区安全部门关系密切的未透露姓名的消息人士的话说，她可能因破损的试管感染了肺鼠疫。
The news outlet People of Baikal, citing unnamed sources close to the regional security services, said she may have contracted pneumonic plague from a broken test tube.
其他媒体报道称，她的死亡与该设施的实验室事故之间可能存在联系。
Other media reported a possible link between her death and a lab accident at the facility.
但伊尔库茨克地区州长伊戈尔·科布泽夫周一表示，特别专家委员会对该地区的检查发现“死因是病因不明的肺炎”。
But Irkutsk regional governor Igor Kobzev said on Monday that a special expert commission inspection in the region had found that “the cause of death was pneumonia of undetermined etiology”.
他在Telegram上表示，俄罗斯消费者和卫生监管机构Rosspotrebnadzor在检测后确定，“在她的生物样本中没有发现与这名年轻女子的专业工作有关的微生物”。
He said on Telegram that Russia’s consumer and health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor had determined, following tests, that “no microorganisms linked to the young woman’s professional work were found in her biological samples”.
他补充说，自该妇女去世以来，“没有出现新的抗瘟疫研究所工作人员寻求医疗护理的病例”。科布泽夫表示，伊尔库茨克的卫生流行病学状况“稳定”。
He added that there had been “no new cases of staff from the anti-plague institute seeking medical attention” since the woman’s death. Kobzev said the sanitary-epidemiological situation in Irkutsk was “stable”.
“局势仍在我们和专家的控制之下。”周一，克里姆林宫发言人德米特里·佩斯科夫（Dmitry Peskov）在被问及有关情况时告诉记者，“依靠罗斯波特雷布纳佐（Rosspotrebnadzor）的官方声明，而不是……谣言和猜测”。
“The situation remains under our control and that of the experts.”Asked about the situation on Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters to “rely on Rospotrebnadzor’s official statements rather than … rumours and speculations”.
鼠疫是一种细菌性疾病，可以以多种形式发生，包括传染性最强的肺鼠疫。据世界卫生组织称，如果不尽早治疗，鼠疫可能致命。
Plague is a bacterial disease that can occur in several forms, including pneumonic plague, the most contagious type. Pneumonic plague can be fatal if it is not treated early, according to the World Health Organization.
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普周一在白宫对记者表示，美国将帮助俄罗斯。特朗普说：“我们正在非常强烈地关注此事，我们刚刚听说此事。”“我们会帮助他们，我们会尽我们所能帮助他们。”美国国务卿马可·卢比奥表示，美国正在密切关注局势，但认为没有“令人震惊的原因”。
US President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday that the United States will help Russia. “We’re looking at it very strongly, we just heard about it,” Trump said. “We’ll help them, we’ll help them as much as we can.”US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said his country was monitoring the situation but saw no “cause for alarm”.
卢比奥在出发访问冰岛之前告诉记者：“显然，美国和俄罗斯之间的旅行非常有限，但就像其他任何事情一样，类似的事情传播出去，可能会迅速传播。”
“There’s very limited travel between the US and Russia, obviously, but like anything else, something like that gets out, it could quickly spread,” Rubio told reporters before taking off for a visit to Iceland.
“所以我们正在密切关注和监控它。我不认为这会引起恐慌，但这会引起人们的关注，也是人们密切关注的原因。我们正在这样做。”援引法新社
“So we’re watching and monitoring it closely. I don’t think it’s cause for alarm, but it is cause for focus and a cause to just keep an eye on it. And we’re doing that.”By Agence France-Presse