莫斯科，10月8日——俄罗斯周四表示，已完成对西伯利亚一鼠疫研究设施中已故实验室工作人员所有接触者的健康检查，显示出想要结束此事的意愿。
MOSCOW, Oct 8 - Russia said on Thursday it had completed health checks on all the contacts of a deceased lab worker at a plague research facility in Siberia, signalling a desire to draw a line under the affair.
国家卫生监督机构和地区州长的声明称，对这名已故女子所有接触者的监测已结束，并重申在近5000个样本中未发现危险病原体。
Statements from the state health watchdog and the regional governor said monitoring of all the dead woman's contacts had concluded, and reiterated that no dangerous pathogens had been found in nearly 5,000 samples.
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“在媒体强烈关注下，专家们对情况进行了彻底调查。这是一次考验，但我们以值得的方式通过了考验，”伊尔库茨克州州长伊戈尔·科布泽夫说。
"Amidst intense media scrutiny, the specialists thoroughly investigated the situation. It was a test, but we passed it in worthy fashion," Irkutsk governor Igor Kobzev said.
然而，尽管世界卫生组织（WHO）和美国施加压力，俄罗斯当局仍未明确说明28岁实验室工作人员达莉娅·希皮洛娃（Darya Shipilova）于10月2日死亡是否可能由鼠疫引起。
Yet despite pressure from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States, Russian authorities have yet to state definitively whether the death of 28-year-old lab worker Darya Shipilova on October 2 could have been caused by plague.
他们此前表示，她死于肺炎，但肺炎的来源尚未确定。他们还称，她已接受适当疫苗接种，且在她体内未发现与其工作相关的微生物。
They have previously stated that she died from pneumonia but that the origin of the pneumonia had yet to be determined. They have also said she was appropriately vaccinated and that no microorganisms linked to her work were found in her body.
周三，世卫组织高级官员玛丽亚·范·克尔科夫（Maria Van Kerkhove）表示，全球组织希望从俄罗斯获得更多信息，了解已进行的实验室检测、评估了哪些病原体，并询问“如果此人不是死于鼠疫，那么她是如何死亡的？”俄罗斯称已按照既定程序向世卫组织提供了全部信息。
On Wednesday, senior WHO official Maria Van Kerkhove said the global body wanted more information from Russia on what laboratory tests had been conducted, which pathogens were evaluated and that "if this individual didn't die from plague, then how did she die?" Russia says it has provided full information to the WHO according to established procedures.
全球卫生官员——以及全球媒体——自新冠疫情以来，对原因不明的肺炎病例格外警惕。新冠疫情始于中国一群快速传播的致命呼吸道疾病的聚集。然而，个别肺炎病例的具体原因往往难以确定。
Global health officials - as well as the world's media - have been particularly alert to pneumonia cases of undetermined cause since the COVID-19 pandemic, which began with a cluster of fast-spreading fatal respiratory illness in China. However, the cause of individual pneumonia cases can often not be determined.
肺部感染可能由多种原因引起，而不仅仅是鼠疫，其他细菌感染或病毒性呼吸道疾病（如新冠肺炎或流感）也可能导致此类感染。根据伊尔库茨克州州长的声明，对第1-3段进行了重新表述
The lung infection can have a variety of causes other than plague, including other bacterial infections or viral respiratory diseases, such as COVID or flu. Recasts paragraphs 1-3 after statement from Irkutsk governor