Everything we know about the suspected plague case in Russia so far

This undated photo released in 2019 by the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, shows the institute workers in a lab.

The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East via AP On October 2, an Irkutsk lab employee died from pneumonia.

There's confusion over what illness the woman died from, with conflicting reports out of the region.

The World Health Organization says the US is at "very low risk" of being exposed to the plague.

After a technician at an anti-plague laboratory in Siberia died, Russian officials are attempting to calm global concerns.

Darya Shipilova, a 28-year-old employee at the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia, died on October 2 after being hospitalized days earlier for pneumonia in Shelekhov, a nearby town .

The World Health Organization told the Associated Press on October 6 that the plague presents a "very low" risk to the broader European region.

That doesn't mean we know everything — or really, much of anything — as of now.

While there's no confirmation of a plague outbreak so far, conflicting reports about how Shipilova got infected, whether she was infected at work, and Russia's current safety protocols have given some medical experts pause.

On October 7, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the organization had requested more information from Russian health authorities.

"It's an odd situation that needs more transparency and requires more information for clarity," Dr.

Nahid Bhadelia, the founding director of the Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases, told Business Insider.

Here's everything we know so far.

What happened to Darya Shipilova? Rospotrebnadzor, Russia's public health watchdog, said that Shipilova died from "pneumonia of unknown etiology." A friend told CNN that she died on October 2.