Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague as hundreds placed in quarantine
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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

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.

  • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
    15·
    23 hours ago

    Kobzev stated that all identified close contacts remain asymptomatic and have tested negative.

    How do someone test a virus that is “unknown”…?

      • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
        11·
        22 hours ago

        Because the facility specialises in dangerous pathogens, the incident has drawn speculation it could be pneumonic plague – one of three variants caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis

        Speculation only, no one other than the lab know what that virus are, it could be just that, or it could be something else entirely that they made to test vaccine or some other test(which is very normal procedure iirc)