Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague as hundreds placed in quarantine
www.independent.co.uk
Darya Shipilova is said to have been exposed to the pathogen while working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia

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.

  • ThePyroPython@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3113·
    2 days ago

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

    • Cheese_man@lemmy.worldEnglish
      79·
      2 days ago

      Or it disproportionately kills the most economically oppressed like always, spreads paranoia and destroys community trust, leading to another right wing surge.

    • Artisian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      2 days ago

      (A reminder that wishing your political enemies die by their own hand is… not great.)

          • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            21 hours ago

            Idk about ‘love’, that’s rather in the Christian “love the sinner, hate the sin”. Outside of that, it’s just “don’t hate the player”.

            But anyway, in this case I don’t so much hate them as support their right to choose their fate. However, the real victims here are immunocompromised people, those who can’t use vaccines, the elderly and children who are collateral damage by getting infected from the unvaccinated.

            And then, since the ‘game’ was brought on by the conservative folks upon themselves and others via their choices, why shouldn’t I blame them?