前白宫新冠疫情应对协调员黛博拉·比克斯博士表示，一名在俄罗斯实验室研究肺鼠疫的研究人员死亡一事让她感到“担忧”。比克斯在周日接受《NewsNation Prime》节目主持人赫娜·多巴采访时表示：“这件事尤其令人担忧，我也明白为什么白宫、国务院和疾控中心（CDC）对此高度关注并持续追踪。”多家媒体援引俄罗斯卫生与消费者保护机构“俄罗斯联邦消费者权益保护局”（Rospotrebnadzor）的消息报道称，一名在伊尔库茨克西伯利亚与远东反传染病研究所工作的20多岁女性因不明原因引发的肺炎去世。
Dr. Deborah Birx, the former White House COVID-19 response coordinator, said the death of a researcher working at a Russian lab studying the pneumonic plague was “concerning” to her. “This is particularly concerning and I know why the White House, State Department and CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] are very much aware and tracking” the situation, Birx told host Hena Doba Sunday on “NewsNation Prime.”A woman in her late 20s who worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Institute of Siberia and the Far East has died of pneumonia of unknown origin, multiple outlets reported, citing Rospotrebnadzor, a Russian health and consumer protection agency.
该研究所位于伊尔库茨克州，专门研究肺鼠疫。根据美国疾控中心的说法，感染肺鼠疫的人会出现发烧、头痛、虚弱等症状，并发展为“快速进展”的肺炎，表现为呼吸困难、胸痛、咳嗽，有时还会咳出带血或水样的黏液。卫生官员补充说：“当未经治疗的腺鼠疫或败血型鼠疫患者的细菌传播到肺部时，或者当人吸入了患有肺鼠疫的其他人或动物咳出的传染性飞沫时，就会引发肺鼠疫。”
The research institute, located in Irkutsk Oblast, studies the pneumonic plague. Individuals with the disease develop fever, headache, weakness and a “rapidly developing” pneumonia characterized by shortness of breath, chest pain, cough and sometimes bloody or water mucus, according to the CDC. “Pneumonic plague develops when bacteria spread to the lungs of a patient with untreated bubonic or septicemic plague, or when a person inhales infectious droplets coughed out by another person or animal with pneumonic plague,” the health officials added.
一名国务院官员告诉《NewsNation》——《The Hill》的姊妹媒体——该部门“已知悉”这一情况。这位官员补充说：“我们正在与疾控中心及其他跨机构合作伙伴密切监测局势”，同时敦促俄罗斯当局“迅速、公开地分享准确信息”。比克斯周日表示，除非存在“潜在基础疾病”，否则20多岁的人死于肺鼠疫是“极不寻常”的。这位美国前全球卫生外交特别代表认为，实验室事故可能导致她感染了肺鼠疫。
A State Department official told NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network, that the department is “aware” of the situation. “We are monitoring the situation closely with the CDC and our other interagency partners,” the official added, before urging Russian authorities “to share accurate information quickly and openly.”Birx said Sunday it would be “highly unusual” for someone in their 20s to die of pneumonic plague unless they had an “underlying condition.”The former U.S. special representative for global health diplomacy said a laboratory accident could have caused her to contract the pneumonic plague.
比克斯指出：“而且这名女性在接触肺鼠疫后还进行了旅行。肺鼠疫意味着病毒已经进入了她的肺部。”“也就是说，病毒已经存在于她的肺部，而她却进行了旅行。”
“And this woman traveled after exposure with pneumonic,” Birx noted. “The pneumonic plague means it's in her lungs."
“她有可能让许多人面临感染风险，因为这种疾病可以通过飞沫传播，”她继续说道。“因此，存在诸多担忧，也给了俄罗斯方面很多需要透明的理由。”美国国务卿马可·卢比奥周日表示，俄罗斯目前的局势并非“值得惊慌的原因，但确实需要引起关注”，并指出美国与俄罗斯之间的旅行“非常有限”。
“So she had it in her lungs. She traveled. She potentially could have exposed many people because that is then transmissible by droplet," she continued. "So a lot of concerns and a lot of reasons for the Russians to be transparent.”Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday the situation in Russia is not a “cause for alarm, but it is cause for focus,” noting there is “very limited” travel between the U.S. and Russia.