Russian authorities are responding to an incident in which a dangerous infection was released as a result of a laboratory accident in Siberia and a researcher died.
The incident occurred at the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, near Irkutsk […] a “suspected case of a particularly dangerous infection affecting a resident of the region,”
Yeah, that’s not alarming at all …
an aluminum plant near the laboratory instructed staff to wear masks as a precautionary measure. […] nearly 200 people were placed under observation at the hospital in Shelekhov […] Quarantine has also been imposed in at least one of the city’s maternity hospitals […] "even if [plague is] confirmed, there will be no spread of this disease,”
If this spreads and lockdowns and mask mandates come back, an entire portion of the US population will go actually, literally insane.
The Sun (which sucks, but often gets facts right underneath all the slanted coverage and yellow journalism) said
She was said to have become ill after breaking a test tube at Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute where she worked earlier this week.
They’re already saying the quarantine there is to last for three weeks.
Despite there not being any other known current infections, Wikipedia’s entry for the town of Shelekov now has a subsection for “2026 epidemic”.
Guess I’ll be poking at This Week In Virology again for a while …
Thank you for your summary. I don’t want to try to alarm you any further, but another thing I suspect – which also happened in Wuhan during the initial outbreak – is that it’s already much worse than what they’re admitting right now.
As a side note, I think the
AntiPlague Research Institute in Shelekhov can start removing some letters from the facade of their building.They could replace them with “Trump.”
Yes it makes no sense but it will once the Plague takes out 80% of the MAGA antimask antivaxxers.
And he’d love it. As long as you use gold letters
Trump isn’t putting any mask mandate into place even if the rest of the world did it. The government wont test for it like it should be because then there is no way of knowing how rampant the lies is spreading.
Well that seems less than ideal
It is unclear exactly what was released, according to the state agency that handles infectious disease, Rospotrebnadzor. One person – a laboratory worker – is said to have died in the incident after being diagnosed with a pneumonia of “unknown” origin.
Someone get AI on the case, stat!
Oh no, not again.
The Andromeda Strain.
