{"id":1499,"date":"2026-10-08T16:02:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2026-10-08T16:02:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:02:02","slug":"russia-plague-didnt-accidentally-leak-from-broken-test-tube-mom-of-dead-scientist-says-i-know-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/?p=1499","title":{"rendered":"Russia plague didn\u2019t accidentally leak from broken test tube, mom of dead scientist says: \u2018I know the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mother of the Russian scientist who died in a suspected plague outbreak in Siberia denies the reports that her daughter was infected after breaking a test tube \u2014 and instead suggested Russian officials \u201csimply let my daughter die.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daria Shipilova, 28,\u00a0 had been working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East when she fell ill and died in the hospital on Oct. 2 after reportedly dropping a test tube containing the deadly pathogen.<\/p>\n

However, her mother Svetlana Shipilova, a medical professional, told Russian outlet Glubina that she was not buying that narrative, claiming it\u2019s simply impossible to break a test tube and insisting she knows \u201cthe truth,\u201d the Telegraph reported.<\/p>\n

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Daria Shipilova, 28, a laboratory assistant at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk, is reported by Russian media as the country\u2019s first fatal pneumonic plague case in years. Daria Shipilova\/e2w<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI know the truth,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m having to fend off stupid acquaintances who believed all this \u2013 the clever ones didn\u2019t believe it, of course.<\/p>\n

Not even all medical professionals understand it\u2019s impossible to break a test tube like that,\u201d she continued. \u201cEven if you fling it at the wall. Only an amateur could say something like that.<\/p>\n

Even hypothetically, you simply can\u2019t spill what\u2019s inside or break the tube \u2013 they\u2019re that well protected,\u201d she insisted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey simply let my daughter die.\u201d<\/p>\n