日内瓦10月6日电——据联合国卫生机构的一位发言人称，俄罗斯当局周二向世界卫生组织表示，西伯利亚城市伊尔库茨克没有鼠疫病例。此前，该市一家鼠疫研究所的一名实验室工作人员于上周死亡。
Russia tells WHO there are no plague cases in Siberian city GENEVA, Oct 6 - Russian authorities told the World Health Organization on Tuesday that it has no cases of plague in the city of Irkutsk in Siberia, where a laboratory worker at a plague research institute died last week, according to a spokesperson for the UN health agency.
根据全球卫生规则，莫斯科必须在24小时内对世卫组织的请求作出回应。莫斯科此前曾告诉世卫组织，当局正在调查她的死因是否由肺鼠疫引起。
Moscow, which is required under global health rules to respond to WHO requests within 24 hours, previously told the WHO authorities were investigating whether pneumonic plague caused her death.
世卫组织发言人克里斯蒂安·林德梅尔在日内瓦举行的记者会上宣读了俄罗斯当局对世卫组织请求的官方回应，其中写道：“俄罗斯联邦伊尔库茨克市未记录到此类危险疾病的病例。”
"No case of this dangerous disease has been recorded in the city of Irkutsk, Russian Federation," Russian authorities said in an official response to a WHO request, read out by WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier at a Geneva press briefing.
他们还向该联合国机构表示，他们已经确定了与死者有过接触的人员，并且危险传染病病原体的检测结果为阴性。
They also told the UN agency they have identified the people in contact with the deceased and that test results for dangerous infectious pathogens were negative.
路透社未能立即核实这是否意味着他们也对这名实验室工作人员进行了检测，以及能否排除她感染鼠疫的可能性。俄罗斯常驻联合国日内瓦办事处代表团没有立即回应置评请求。世卫组织此前曾表示，鼠疫对普通民众构成的风险似乎很低。
Reuters could not immediately establish if this meant that they had also tested the laboratory worker and whether they could rule out plague in her case. The Russian diplomatic mission to the UN in Geneva did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The WHO has previously said that the risk of plague to the general population appeared to be low.