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.

  • tal@lemmy.today
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    18 hours ago

    I think that it’d be pretty hard to describe a plague pandemic in any terms approaching “positively”.

    • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      The black death caused the renaissance¹, and the end of feudalism in Europe. I’d say that was pretty positive (eventually), despite the overall tragedy.

      1. By leaving enough job openings in the cities for the serfs to escape their lords’ fields to work for themselves, with much higher wages due to less supply and increased demand, and severely reducing the lords’ power in the process.
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      17 hours ago

      IDK an irradication of boomers, antivaxers, and conservatives would be approaching a positive outcome.