Darya Shipilova is said to have been exposed to the pathogen while working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia
Hundreds of people have been placed into quarantine in Siberia after a laboratory worker died of suspected plague, according to reports.
Darya Shipilova, an employee at the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, was exposed to the bacteria after she accidentally broke a test tube containing the pathogen while she was collecting samples, the Kyiv Independent reported.
She was hospitalised on 29 September with severe pneumonia of "unknown origin” and placed on a ventilator, but died shortly after.
Independent Russian outlet Lyudi Baikal reported that several hospitals in the city of Irkutsk had closed for a three-week quarantine.
Hopefully it’s contained, because if we get another pandemic conservatives are going to do everything in their power to make it kill as many people as possible.
I’d like to know what the “live biological samples” were.
Earlier articles said it was Pneumonic Plague. Maybe the independent is taking a step back from that since there’s nothing definitive, but it doesn’t really matter right now (note that this position is different from saying it doesn’t matter at all, or saying to not keep your ear to the ground).
If it’s the plague then it’s treatable with antibiotics, but not the first line ones, and it has to be treated quickly. As we all should know by now if it’s a virus you can only treat the symptoms until there’s a vaccine.
You get what you voted for. The good old times!
Maybe that’s the accelerationists goal. Retreat in their bunkers, use ai to run things outside while humans die en masse, and then “rebuild society from its ashes”.
Wikipedia is already referencing articles saying it’s a pathogen related to the Black Death.
And for people worried about it, the World Health Organization (WHO) says that “today it can be easily treated with antibiotics and the use of standard preventative measures.”
So if it’s easily treated, and I’m sure they knew this at the lab, why did the worker die?
Many possible explanations.
- Russia lying again to justify death of someome they wanted dead
- Russia lying again to try to scare the world into thinking they have some unknown bioweapon
- Russia lying again that this whole ordeal happened to make the world think they have scientists working on bioweapons
Let’s not discount the possibility of creaking Soviet-era equipment that should have been replaced decades ago but the money was non-existent/spent corruptly/not enough to touch the sides of the neglect/delete as appropriate.
We’re talking about the country which operates the poor Kuznetsov which has been begging for death for many years.
Hopefully Ukraine will grant it mercy and eternal rest 🙏
In a country where people suicide by 12 knife stabs in the back and where people randomly fall from an inoperable 5th floor window…
I would just say: because Russia?
People die of treatable diseases.
that kinda undercuts the whole “don’t worry, the black death can be cured now a days” argument
No idea if true but people on reddit said it had to be treated within 24 hours of symptom onset.
A ton of people would easily try to wait it out and be too late to get meds.
think about what it would do to housing prices to have a large number of nice houses be suddenly available
I’m not sure, so I’m gonna wear my beak mask just to be safe.
I’m guessing they made an extra feisty version. Otherwise, break out the antibiotics, no need for death or massive quarantine…
Anti-Plague Research Institute
I bet I know what this mystery virus is
It’s like bills with titles that say the opposite of what they achieve.
Should be Pro-Plague Research Institute
The articles says it’s not a virus:
Darya Shipilova, an employee at the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, was exposed to the bacteria after she accidentally broke a test tube containing the pathogen while she was collecting samples, the Kyiv Independent reported.
Why does it say virus in the title?
Ah yes here we go again.
They really are going all out for the midterms. A new pandemic
oh hey look somebody wrote a book about this exact scenario recently…
So if Putin calls it the Anti-Plague Research Institute we can be pretty sure they’re actively creating plagues right?
Does the author not know that there’s a difference between a virus and a bacterium?
It’s funny how often you see this mistake made in articles about diseases. Like, people think bacteria and viruses are the same sorta nasty so what’s the big deal? FFS - the word ‘antibiotics’ ought to give them a clue that these things are treated very differently.
How could Joe Biden and the Democrats let this happen! They’re only doing this yo make Trump look bad, and after the election it will conveniently disappear.
- stuff said by right-wingers about covid in mid-2020
Red vs Blue brain rot on full display here. You managed to turn some news about a lab leak in Russia … about US Politics?
That’s just what being American is like. Everything always has to be about them.
As an American I need everyone to help me steer this conversation towards gun control or abortion.
I’m American and I think that behavior is unhinged
Anyone who wants something extra to feel anxious about should read the hot zone by Richard Preston. It’s about Ebola, not plague, but it’s. . . alarming. Ebola is a virus, not a bacteria like plague, but the difficulty of containment even in secure labs, and the possibilities of mutation - as far as I know, they’re not dissimilar. Especially if a government lab has been fucking around trying to weaponise it, as I suspect happened here.
I will never understand the thought behind weaponizing diseases. They kill indiscriminately, even you, the developer or the president who orders it’s release. Anybody who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves.
This is why all of the interest in genetics and gene manipulation by the creepy rich, like Epstein and company, should freak people out into swift action
I wish ppl understood this about nuclear weapons. Like ok so you want to attack that country over there… what do you think 60 seconds to midnight means exactly?
Really any weapons. Start a war is literally fucking around and finding out. It all comes with blow back.
Everyone has the same choice to be assholes. It’s not a super power. Just a choice.
Those who weaponize diseases don’t think that far ahead. They don’t care, because it hurts other people, and that’s all they need to feel like they “won”.
I will never understand the thought behind weaponizing diseases. They kill indiscriminately, even you, the developer or the president who orders it’s release. Anybody who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves.
“fuck them” mentality is the reason.
Remember that conservatives constantly whine about “plandemics”. And we have learned with the. That accusation is a confession.
-Pizzagate was Epstein -Stolen elections are literally all just conservatives cheating -Biden crime family was just giving permission to the insane corruption of the whore family.
Conservatives need to go away for the safety of all life on earth.
They are insane pedophile supporting psychopaths that only care about money
T-Virus time?
I look forward to conservatives fighting for their right to get bitten by zombies.
Well looking through the list of symptoms, it makes you murderous and violent, you never seem to die a natural death, and all you want to do in life is destroy the brains of the woke.
…I guess they’ve already got it.
I guarentee you, it’s not unknown.
You are right. It’s a known bacteria. Read the article.
Plague isn’t a virus. Sigh.
