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拉米·伊诺森西奥是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻驻伦敦的驻外记者，负责报道欧洲和中东地区。他于2019年加入该媒体集团，担任哥伦比亚广播公司新闻驻北京的亚洲记者，在亚太地区开展报道，拥有在亚洲和美国之间工作、旅行的二十年从业经验。
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俄罗斯政府周一淡化了媒体报道引发的担忧。此前有媒体报道称，西伯利亚一名女科学家可能在实验室事故中接触鼠疫杆菌后死亡。
克里姆林宫发言人德米特里·佩斯科夫强调，被称为俄消费者权益保护和公益监督局（Rospotrebnadzor）的国家卫生监管机构是“该领域具备专业知识的牵头机构”，并敦促俄罗斯民众“听取其‘高素质专业人员’发布的官方信息”。
俄媒已确认这名去世的研究人员为28岁的达丽娅·希皮洛娃，她在莫斯科以东2500多英里的伊尔库茨克鼠疫防治研究所工作。
俄媒最初报道称，她在9月底打碎了一支装有鼠疫杆菌的试管，随后患上重症肺炎，并于10月1日不治身亡。
报道中提及的鼠疫杆菌是鼠疫耶尔森菌，正是引发14世纪中期席卷欧洲的黑死病的病原体，那场大流行估计造成2500万至5000万人死亡。这场通常被称为腺鼠疫的大流行，由寄生在啮齿类和其他动物身上的跳蚤传播，这些动物与人类近距离接触，且生活在同样恶劣的卫生条件下。
这种病原体若未接受治疗，可能引发肿胀、发烧甚至死亡。
据俄媒报道，希皮洛娃死于肺鼠疫——同样由该细菌引发，但会攻击肺部，引发发烧和可带血的咳嗽。与腺鼠疫不同，肺鼠疫可在人际间传播，且同样可能致命。
俄罗斯东部布里亚特共和国行政长官阿列克谢·齐登诺夫最初在国家支持的通讯应用MAX上发帖称，希皮洛娃死于鼠疫。据运营于海外的独立地区媒体《贝加尔湖人民》（Lyudi Baikala）报道，他随后编辑了该帖子，补充了“可能”一词。
他并非唯一一位在该事件报道中改口的俄官员。
当地官员最初警告民众不要前往希皮洛娃就医并最终离世的谢列霍夫镇，理由是有“非官方消息”称出现了人类鼠疫病例。
据《贝加尔湖人民》和另一家独立新闻网站《阿斯特拉》报道，该帖子发布不到两小时就被删除。
自那以来，俄罗斯卫生监管机构俄消费者权益保护和公益监督局表示，已开展“防疫措施”，包括对近200名与希皮洛娃有过接触的人员进行检测。
该机构称，部分人员的感冒或新冠检测结果呈阳性，但未发现引发危险感染的病原体。它还表示，伊尔库茨克鼠疫防治研究所未发生任何事故，并将该科学家的死亡归因于“不明原因肺炎”。
美国国务卿马可·卢比奥周一在接受记者采访时表示，俄罗斯疑似出现鼠疫病例的报道不必引发恐慌，但应“引起关注”。
“显然，我们了解俄罗斯方面提供的所有信息，”他说，“似乎有一名实验室工作人员受到了感染，人们担心这可能会造成传播。”
但卢比奥表示，鉴于“美俄之间的旅行非常有限”，他认为这“不必引发恐慌，但应引起关注，我们需要对此保持警惕，我们也正在这么做”。
珍妮弗·雅各布斯为本报道撰稿。
Russia plays down plague fears and denies lab accident, says scientist died of “pneumonia of unknown origin”
2026-10-05T12:30:00-0400 / CBS News
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Ramy Inocencio
Ramy Inocencio is a CBS News foreign correspondent based in London, covering Europe and the Middle East. He joined the Network in 2019 as CBS News’ Asia correspondent, based in Beijing and reporting across the Asia-Pacific, bringing two decades of experience working and traveling between Asia and the United States.
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Updated on: October 5, 2026 / 12:32 PM EDT / CBS News
Russia’s government played down concerns Monday sparked by media reports that a female scientist in Siberia might have died of exposure to the plague after a lab accident.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stressed that the state health watchdog known as Rospotrebnadzor was the “lead agency with expertise in this area,” and he urged Russians to “listen to official information” from its “highly qualified professionals.”
The researcher who died has been identified by the Russian reports as Darya Shipilova, 28, who worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute more than 2,500 miles east of Moscow.
Russian media initially reported that she broke a test tube containing plague bacteria in late September, came down with severe pneumonia and then died of her illness on Oct. 1.
The plague bacterium referred to by the reports is yersinia pestis, the same one that caused the Black Death that swept across Europe in the mid-1300s, killing an estimated 25-50 million people. That pandemic, often referred to as the bubonic plague, was spread by fleas living on rodents and other animals in close proximity to — and in the same grim sanitary conditions as — people.
The pathogen, if untreated, can cause swelling, fever and death.
A microscopic image shows the yersinia pestis bacteria, which causes plague infections in humans. RUSLANAS BARANAUSKAS/SCIENCE PHO/Getty Images
Shipilova, according to Russian media, died from the pneumonic plague, which is caused by the same bacteria but attacks the lungs and causes a fever and a cough that can turn bloody. Pneumonic plague can be transmitted from person to person, unlike bubonic plague, and can also be fatal.
The head of Russia’s eastern Republic of Buryatia, Alexei Tsydenov, initially said Shipilova died of the plague in a post on the state-backed messaging app MAX. He later edited the post to add the word “possibly,” according to an independent regional Russian media outlet that operates in exile, Lyudi Baikala (People of Baikal).
He was not the only Russian official to walk back their words on the story.
Local officials initially warned people not to visit the town of Shelekhov, where the scientist was hospitalized and later died, citing “unofficial information” about a human plague case.
The post was deleted less than two hours later, according to both Lyudi Baikala and Astra, another independent news website.
Since then, Russia’s health watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, has said it carried out “anti-epidemic measures” that included testing nearly 200 people who had come into contact with Shipilova.
The agency said some people had tested positive for colds or COVID, but that no pathogens causing dangerous infections were found. It also said there had been no accident at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute, and it attributed the scientist’s death to “pneumonia of unknown origin.”
Speaking with reporters on Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the reports of a suspected plague case in Russia were not cause for alarm, but “for focus.”
“We know what we know, obviously, about whatever the Russians have provided,” he said. “It seems that there was a worker at the lab that was infected, and there’s concern that that, you know, could have spread.”
But Rubio said, given “very limited travel between the U.S. and Russia,” he did not believe it was “cause for alarm, but it is cause for focus, and a cause to just keep an eye on it, and we’re doing that.”
Jennifer Jacobs contributed to this report.
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