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.
Welp, time to get a somewhat more substantial face filter mask thing.
“Mah freedom!”
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…)
“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.