“They simply let my daughter die,” the woman's mother, who's also a medical professional, reportedly told local media.

In the Irkutsk Oblast of russia, the aggressor country, a death from pneumonic plague—a dangerous airborne infection with a high fatality rate—has been reported. An employee of a local anti-plague ...

A Russian plague lab assistant may have accidentally broken a test tube containing a deadly “Black Death” pathogen before being infected, a local report claimed. Now, up to 200 people are now believed ...

Officials have not confirmed plague as the cause of Daria Shipilova’s death; she developed severe pneumonia days after the alleged exposure, while Russia’s health chief flew in and authorities opened ...

A female lab technician has died in Siberia of pneumonic plague after breaking a test tube, as at least 200 people are put under quarantine.

In a tragic incident in Irkutsk, Russia, a laboratory worker died after an accidental exposure to live plague bacteria from a broken test tube. Nearly 200 individuals potentially exposed to her are ...

Test tubes are handheld tubes used for mixing or heating chemicals in a laboratory. They are open at the top and rounded at the bottom, and usually made of glass or plastic materials. Some are ...

A Siberian lab worker's death has sparked a plague scare. Her mother rejects the broken-test-tube story, experts question ...

In a sign that radio-frequency identification technology is making headway in the medical field, Smart Medical Technologies Inc. tomorrow will introduce a "smart" test tube embedded with an RFID chip ...