A woman dies in the city Irkutsk. She is 28 years old. She works in a lab for plague research. Media say: She has the Lungen-Pest. Maybe an accident happens in the lab. Russia says: The woman has a simple illness.
Many people feel fear now. Workers clean houses with special suits. About 200 people must stay in Quarantäne. This means: They stay alone at home. Now authorities say: All people are healthy. The situation is calm.
The WHO worries. The USA and the EU want more facts. They want true news from Russia. The Lungen-Pest is very dangerous. Without medicine many people die. But Antibiotika helps very fast.
The plague is a very old illness. Bakterien make people sick. The illness still exists on earth. For example in Africa or in the USA. In Europe people rarely get the plague.
