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.
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.
I think the idea is to develop a vaccine or cure along with the disease so you can deploy that selectively.
Doesn’t make the idea any better though.
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.
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
They say fiction predicts fact…
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.
His book The Demon in the Freezer is also really good and about small pox.
Incidentally there are two facilities in the world that contain and research smallpox, one in Russia and one, of course, in the USA. The latter has previously had “incidents”.
‘Anti’ plague research.
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.
I’m American and I think that behavior is unhinged
How long until the orange pedo uses this as an excuse for a lockdown and cancels the midterms
Likely won’t be a blip on the radar.
FYI the US averages seven cases of Plague a year. Usually happens in the western plains, Utah and Arizona and occasionally into northern California and Orgeon.
Often tied to those rural areas with prairie dog populations since the bacteria likes rodents and they can become carriers.
It’s not the 1300’s anymore and treatment is a few rounds of azithromycin or some other heavy-duty anti-biotic.
I’m sure his buddy Vlad will tell him that he has it under control and there’s nothing to worry about.
I swear to all that is holy if there’s another pandemic I will have a bitch fit
Awesome. My question is: does Anti-Plague Research Institute actually mean Biological Weapon Research Institute?
My guess is yes, since she died. I’m pretty sure that it’s pretty trivial to cure plague these days, just using antibiotics. Since she died, and there’s a big quarantine, that suggests the possibility that they’ve been fucking with the bacteria and made it extra spicy. It’s so obvious that governments will do this - just because - that Stephen King wrote the stand back in the 70s.
It could be antibiotics-resistant strain, and that can occur naturally pretty easily. Russian healthcare system likes to prescribe antibiotics for anything and everything, so probability of her being on some prolonged course that allowed for a super-plague to develop naturally is not zero.
Which, frankly speaking, will be so much worse. At this point, I hope it’s a bioweapon.Russian healthcare system likes to prescribe antibiotics for anything and everything
Weren’t they pioneering phage research back in the old USSR days…?
Yeah, well, you know how it is…
Depends on the form. Even regular Yersinia can be very, very bad if it gets into the wrong organs.
Does it really matter what the label is on the name of the institute that wipes out humanity? If the place has deadly viruses with the only protection stopping it from killing people that work there is a thin glass test tube, then it doesn’t really matter what the intent was, the place was always designed to wipe out humanity.
It doesn’t, but I’m willing to bet a dollar that the name on the institute that wipes out humanity will be a reference to the Lord of the Rings, and it will be one of the evil things.
Yup.
Those damnable Valinor-made crystal balls will get you EVERY time.
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
that’s some vintage russian behavior.
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.
By all appearances, no.
Will DDR5 become affordable if 90% of humanity dies?
climate change may be slowed or even reversed though.
No, because LLMs are all vaccinated.
I guess we’ve reached the point where LLMs are actually smarter that a portion of the population.
Unless, they used Norton’s…
to be fair, a playschool see-n-say is smarter than a decently large portion of hte population
Welp, time to get a somewhat more substantial face filter mask thing.
You’d be safer keeping mouse traps on hand and have flea collars on your pets.
Throughout history, plague almost always has come in on a tide of rodents. Rats or mice. (and in the Western US, it’s hosts are often Prairie Dogs…)
“Mah freedom!”
“No, we’re going to recommend simple surgical masks, and then when those don’t work, we’re going to claim that no masks or filtration devices work at all.”
Ivermectin manufacturers are rubbing their hands and upping production.
Prep for chemical warfare. Putin’s last act as a desperate man.
biological*
I don’t care if it’s the first act of Henry the Fifth, that’s a bit much.
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.”
I’m guessing they made an extra feisty version. Otherwise, break out the antibiotics, no need for death or massive quarantine…
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.”
Not if it is developed by Russians to be antibiotic resistant.
Why would they have a lab working on it if it was easily treatable by antibiotic? Why the worker died anyway and they introduced a quarantine?
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
such fun times to be without spleen
So if it’s easily treated, and I’m sure they knew this at the lab, why did the worker die?
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?
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 🙏
Nah, they made their own equipment. That’s worse.
- Russia doing stupid fucking shit. Again.
People die of treatable diseases.
Usually not 28 year olds though
that kinda undercuts the whole “don’t worry, the black death can be cured now a days” argument
Assuming of course, to be pessimistic, it hasn’t been weaponized. Siberian Anti-Plague Research facility doesn’t fill me with confidence, and you’d expect the hospital to have tried antibiotics, granted they may have been too late or used the wrong ones.
Someone else wrote it’s a strain that specializes in colonizing the lungs and has to be treated within 24 hours or septicimia. Also that front line antibiotics might not work on it but others will.
My ‘favourite’ fact about Soviet-era bioweapons is that they had a facility on an island in the Aral Sea. Said sea vanished from existence after the Kremlin redirected all the rivers which fed it in an effort to grow cotton in the desert, causing it to shrink to some 10% or less of its original volume. As well as destroying the livelihoods of the fishermen of Aralsk in Kazakhstan, it also made the island full of fucking anthrax among other things part of the mainland.
I’ll say this for the Soviets, they didn’t do environmental disasters by halves. Also as a Briton we had our own anthrax island in Scotland from the war that was only decontaminated in the '90s.
Why is this comment buried here? It’s literally the solution! Do people love the thrill of panicking? Internet, you so silly sometimes…
Chat how easy it is to brew an antibiotic resistant strain of plague considered we created some resistant diseases fully by accident?
renowned current health guidance has a high likelihood of failing to apply to new genetically-modified variants
(if that is the case)
They really are going all out for the midterms. A new pandemic
