US 'watching closely' after plague researcher dies in Russia, Rubio says
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Watch: US "monitoring" suspected Siberia plague closely, says Marco Rubio The US says it is closely monitoring the case of a Russian lab technician who died at a plague research centre in Siberia.
观察：马可·卢比奥表示，美国正在密切“监测”疑似西伯利亚鼠疫 美国表示正在密切关注一名在西伯利亚瘟疫研究中心死亡的俄罗斯实验室技术人员的案件。
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there was concern the incident could have led to the spread of pneumonic plague, but that there was no cause for alarm.
国务卿马可·卢比奥表示，有人担心这一事件可能导致肺鼠疫的传播，但没有理由惊慌。
Announcing the cause of death as "pneumonia of undetermined etiology", Irkutsk's governor said that "no micro-organisms" linked to the woman's work had been found "in her biological samples".
伊尔库茨克州长宣布死因为“不明原因肺炎”，并表示“在她的生物样本中”没有发现与该妇女的工作相关的微生物。
Unconfirmed reports had suggested the woman fell ill either after breaking a test tube containing the pathogen or following a field trip to a region where plague is found naturally among wild rodents.
未经证实的报道表明，这名妇女是在打破含有病原体的试管后生病的，或者是在前往野生啮齿动物自然发现鼠疫的地区进行实地考察后生病的。
No other cases of staff from the plague institute seeking medical attention since her death had been reported, Irkutsk governor Igor Kobzev said, quoting Russia's consumer and health watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor.
伊尔库茨克州州长伊戈尔·科布泽夫援引俄罗斯消费者和健康监管机构 Rospotrebnadzor 的话说，自她去世以来，还没有报告鼠疫研究所工作人员寻求医疗救助的其他案例。
The watchdog said a biological safety team had inspected the Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk and found no emergency situation there.
该监管机构表示，生物安全小组对伊尔库茨克西伯利亚和远东抗鼠疫研究所进行了检查，没有发现那里出现紧急情况。
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov urged people not to "listen to various rumours" but "rely on Rospotrebnadzor's official statements" instead.
克里姆林宫发言人德米特里·佩斯科夫敦促人们不要“听信各种谣言”，而要“相信俄罗斯联邦总统的官方声明”。
Russian media reported last week that nearly 200 people known to have had contact with the dead woman were under medical observation as a precaution.
俄罗斯媒体上周报道称，作为预防措施，近 200 名已知与死者有过接触的人正在接受医学观察。
Asked by a reporter for an "update on the suspected plague case in Russia", Rubio 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, at least internally - you've seen them do quarantine of this and that nature.
当记者询问“俄罗斯疑似鼠疫病例的最新情况”时，卢比奥说：“实验室里似乎有一名工作人员被感染，人们担心这种情况可能会传播，至少在内部传播——你已经看到他们进行了这样那样的隔离。
"If something like that gets out, it can quickly spread.
“如果类似的事情传出去，它会很快传播开来。
So we're watching and monitoring it closely. I don't think it's cause for alarm, but it is cause for focus and the cause to just keep an eye on it and we're doing that." The woman who died, whose first name was given by Russian media as Daria and who was in her late twenties, had recently visited the Buryatia region on the border with Mongolia.
所以我们正在密切关注和监控它。 我不认为这是引起恐慌的原因，但它是引起关注的原因，也是引起关注的原因，我们正在这样做。” 俄罗斯媒体称这名死者的名字为达丽娅（Daria），二十多岁，她最近访问过与蒙古接壤的布里亚特地区。
The plague bacterium or Yersinia pestis, external, which killed up to half the population of Europe in the 14th Century when it was known as the Black Death, is found among rodents such as marmots in the area.
在该地区的土拨鼠等啮齿类动物中发现了鼠疫细菌，即外部鼠疫耶尔森氏菌，这种细菌在 14 世纪被称为黑死病，导致欧洲一半人口死亡。
It was in response to an outbreak in the 1920s that the Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East, external was founded just over 100 years ago.
100多年前，为了应对20世纪20年代的鼠疫疫情，西伯利亚和远东外部抗鼠疫研究所成立。
Dr Simon Clarke, an associate professor in cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the pneumonic version of Yersinia pestis was nearly always fatal if left untreated, but could be overcome with antibiotics.
雷丁大学细胞微生物学副教授西蒙·克拉克博士告诉 BBC 广播四台的 PM 节目，如果不及时治疗，肺炎鼠疫耶尔森氏菌几乎总是致命的，但可以用抗生素来克服。
"Pneumonic plague can transmit from person to person and that is why there is the concern around this," he said.
他说：“肺鼠疫可以在人与人之间传播，这就是人们对此感到担忧的原因。”
He added: "But of course people's thought with any outbreak of infectious disease at all runs to... lockdowns and Covid and that is just not what's going to happen here."
他补充道：“当然，人们对任何传染病爆发的想法都是……封锁和新冠疫情，而这不会在这里发生。”
"People think, 'Oh the plague, that's gone, that went hundreds of years ago,' but it hasn't," Clarke said.
“人们想，‘噢，瘟疫，它消失了，几百年前就消失了’，但它没有，”克拉克说。
"It's still around and in certain parts of the world, it's a threat to human health and that's why they need to study it."
“它仍然存在于世界某些地区，它对人类健康构成威胁，这就是为什么他们需要研究它。”
Asked if the pathogen might have been studied for potential use as a bio-weapon, the scientist agreed it was possible.
当被问及是否可能已经研究过这种病原体作为生物武器的潜在用途时，科学家同意这是可能的。
"Because this is Russia people's thoughts are running to that, but I think my earlier explanation is probably more likely," Clarke said.
“因为这是俄罗斯，人们的想法都转向了这一点，但我认为我之前的解释可能更有可能，”克拉克说。
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