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.
In Russia, who won’t do a thing about it, and if they do, they’ll botch it in typical Russian fashion. They are easily the dumbest superpower.
Learn to hold your breath for the next few years.
They are easily the dumbest superpower.
I wouldn’t say ‘easily’. Competition is pretty tough in these days.
Ironically Asian powers are the only ones that seem to know what they’re doing these days.
America & European leaders have lost their damn minds
virus
Others claimed it was bacteria. What a shit show
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/78544
“Accuse your enemies of that which you plan to do.”
One of my personal “Rules of Life” is that people are most suspicious of behavior they are most likely to perform. Thieves always think people are stealing from them, cheaters always think someone is cheating on them, etc. They have to believe that, so they can keep performing the behavior, but blame it on others - you do it (even if they don’t), so it’s okay if I do it.
Trump lives by this code, he’s always accusing people of stealing, cheating, etc., and then does it himself “in retaliation,” when what he’s really doing is just helping himself to whatever he wants.
That or they’re wary of things that have been done to them, but I don’t recall Russia ever being targeted by a bioweapon.
What a shit report, honestly. “It is said”, “according to reports”, “the Kyiv Independent reported”, and my favorites “after breaking a test tube”. Go notice, Lyudi Baikal “RadioFreeEurope”, “RsdioLiberty”. We are dicking doomed.
Plague is caused by a bacterium not a virus!
Yeah but how will people compare it to COVID when you report it like that?
scans for the .ml posters
Huh that’s craaaazy lol.
Is that lab owned by the Zontik (зонтик) Corporation?
Yes. =)
Here we go again. How do you accidentally break something that you have to handle so gently. And you’ve handled so gently countless and countless times.
Did you ever watch the first Resident Evil movie? Someone just tossed a vial and said woopsies lol
There are cases of Human plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, in the United States now.
Sure, but they got Ivermectin
Actually, there always have been since introduction, especially in the american southwest. It was never eradicated here.
It’s also extremely treatable in the 21st century
You’re not kidding. There’s a small small cave in California over by Mammoth that people said if you go into it you will get sick and die because it’s filled mice and plague.
Early 2000s FPS and action movies were right all along. The Russians really do seem villainy…
This sounded like an accident
Suspected plague
I meant that part
Edit: And also the Ukraine war, poisoning journalists etc.
For all folks concerned of massive epidemic:
- The people who contacted her after the incident are isolated, the hospital quarantined
- Yes, there is a vaccine. People are not commonly vaccinated because plague is very rare nowadays, but they can be as needed.
- It can be cured by antibiotics. Care needs to be prompt though, and that’s what Daria very recklessly missed. Fatal mistake for someone who oopsied in a pathogen lab.
Also, to those concerned that this is a biological weapon lab:
- This would be the most stupid and inefficient biological weapon. Again, we have the vaccine AND the cure.
- Disease research institutes are a normal thing throughout the world. We need them to efficiently combat outbreaks should they ever reappear.
Strange for someone working with that specific pathogen to not be innoculated prophylactically.
Indeed. This is exactly the kind of high-risk environment for which people are typically inoculated.
looking at how people react in regards of vaccines, masks, and medical misinformation, I think even a common cold can be a successful bio-weapon
Yeah, people seem to think the plague is extinct? There are yearly cases of plague in nearby Mongolia for example. It’s also not usually as easy to spread compared to viruses like influensa. It’s still a scary thing to think about, but nothing for us to worry about really…
yersinia pestis is a zoonotic disease, it never went away. its only the plague flea+black rat that was the problem in medieval times, i think it was combination of stray dogs+cats that helped it. its still in wild rodent populations.
I am pinning my hopes on a random Lemmy commentor.
I hate this timeline.
This random commentor happens to be a Russian microbiologist, so you’re in pretty safe hands.
(No, I do not develop biological weapons, nor am I aware of any such facilities)
I mean unless they are somehow trying to develop an antibiotic and vaccine resistant strain of the plague? If it were the case then it is almost 100% a bioweapon research at best under the guise of bioweapon security. But I don’t know if this person is a bioweapon researcher or a public health researcher.
my fear is dumber than that, people just wont wanna take the vaccine and antibiotic and there will be this weird disease loving faction that does great damage to the greater society.
Lol another twist on bioterrorism
Yes it is much cheaper and easier to convince people to not use vaccines and other proven medical interventions than it would be to create a novel virus. Look at the idiotic life threatening things people are willing to do to follow a TicToc trend or Insta. Not to mention all the idiocy they will follow due to AI. Those are the ‘deadly viruses’ people should be fearing.
I mean unless they are somehow trying to develop an antibiotic and vaccine resistant strain of the plague?
That would be unwise as you’d ideally want to have an antibiotic available for your own troops in a war. We also pretty much know about all of Russia’s bioweapon work after the cold war ended, there’s even an Anthrax island site they abandoned.
Fortunately bio weapon research is even more niche today than it was at the height of cold war tensions and all nations have cut back and destroyed big chunks of their stockpiles.
Also keep in mind that things like leprosy still occur in the USA (Florida is even seeing a small increase in cases) so it’s not necessarily that uncommon or a cause for concern. Things like the plague, leprosy and even strep throat (known as scarlet fever back when it regularly killed kids and routinely caused deafness in survivors) and easier to cure/treat thanks to modern medicine. The hygienic practices we have these days also help keep these things from breaking out like they used to.
This would be the most stupid and inefficient biological weapon. Again, we have the vaccine AND the cure.
Erm, Actually. It’s obvious they’re still researching the Suppression and Sympto-Statis gene tech so they can sneak the plague into other countries without panic.
You casuals wouldn’t understand. 😏 /s
Maybe they’re making a potent cross-species variant by weaponising good ol’ Russian boreal swamp debauchery.
Plague isn’t a virus. Sigh.
It is a bacteria, and since this one likely is modified in a bioweapons, it will be practically immediately fatal and incurable.
Do you have any evidence for either of those statements or are you just doing Russophobia?
There’s nothing Russophobic in that comment.
Of course there is. The assumptions that the Anti-Plague Research Institute is a bioweapon facility, or that big bad Russia can manufacture an immediately fatal and incurable strain of the plague are both fear-mongering statements that wouldn’t be made about any neutral country.
This facility is funded and/or controlled by the Russian government. Being critical of the Russian government is not Russophobia. That is like saying criticizing the government of Israel is antisemitic.
Now if you had said this was a conspiracy theory I might be inclined to agree.
Please indicate the case specifying Russia in there? It’s certainly pessimistic (gain of function studies being a somewhat contentious subject), but not aggressive to a specific nation.
They might just be they played too much RE as a kid.
Not directly but it’s in the DNA of the message. They wouldn’t have made the same comment I’d wager if this was in a French lab or Czech lab.
I don’t know what they would have or would have not posted. Being critical of the Russian government is not Russophobia anyway.
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
As an American I need everyone to help me steer this conversation towards gun control or abortion.
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.
Especially because diseases obviously mutate and the cure may then be ineffective!
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”.
Ah yes here we go again.
