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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.

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[–] Phantom_Feline17@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So we're going to have COVID-2 now?

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[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those toilet paper hoarders sure are laughing now...
Sonofabitchman...

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

I gotta get a bidet this time around

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 day ago

Sure. Let’s do this.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Welp… here it comes.

[–] Peaked@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Oh God, please please please don't be small pox.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

They have a lab with that in Russia too. Oh and one in Georgia! Which has also had "incidents".

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Please not again

[–] Stolas@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm not ready for another quarantine.

I'm not ready for the world to return to being terminally online, invading my safe spaces.

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[–] CyroSignal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

New coronavirus ???

Time for some YEBID-26?

[–] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Anyone for a watch party of Terry Nation's Survivors?

[–] Steve@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago
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