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.
There are cases of Human plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, in the United States now.
Actually, there always have been since introduction, especially in the american southwest. It was never eradicated here.
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.
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…
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. And 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.
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.
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.
Just say no to AI Slop
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!
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…
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.
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”.
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.
As an American I need everyone to help me steer this conversation towards gun control or abortion.
I’m American and I think that behavior is unhinged
‘Anti’ plague research.
How long until the orange pedo uses this as an excuse for a lockdown and cancels the midterms
Likely won’t be a blip on the radar.
FYI the US averages seven cases of Plague a year. Usually happens in the western plains, Utah and Arizona and occasionally into northern California and Orgeon.
Often tied to those rural areas with prairie dog populations since the bacteria likes rodents and they can become carriers.
It’s not the 1300’s anymore and treatment is a few rounds of azithromycin or some other heavy-duty anti-biotic.
I’m sure his buddy Vlad will tell him that he has it under control and there’s nothing to worry about.
Awesome. My question is: does Anti-Plague Research Institute actually mean Biological Weapon Research Institute?
My guess is yes, since she died. I’m pretty sure that it’s pretty trivial to cure plague these days, just using antibiotics. Since she died, and there’s a big quarantine, that suggests the possibility that they’ve been fucking with the bacteria and made it extra spicy. It’s so obvious that governments will do this - just because - that Stephen King wrote the stand back in the 70s.
It could be antibiotics-resistant strain, and that can occur naturally pretty easily. Russian healthcare system likes to prescribe antibiotics for anything and everything, so probability of her being on some prolonged course that allowed for a super-plague to develop naturally is not zero.
Which, frankly speaking, will be so much worse. At this point, I hope it’s a bioweapon.Russian healthcare system likes to prescribe antibiotics for anything and everything
Weren’t they pioneering phage research back in the old USSR days…?
Yeah, well, you know how it is…
Depends on the form. Even regular Yersinia can be very, very bad if it gets into the wrong organs.
Does it really matter what the label is on the name of the institute that wipes out humanity? If the place has deadly viruses with the only protection stopping it from killing people that work there is a thin glass test tube, then it doesn’t really matter what the intent was, the place was always designed to wipe out humanity.
It doesn’t, but I’m willing to bet a dollar that the name on the institute that wipes out humanity will be a reference to the Lord of the Rings, and it will be one of the evil things.
Yup.
Those damnable Valinor-made crystal balls will get you EVERY time.
Remember that conservatives constantly whine about “plandemics”. And we have learned with the. That accusation is a confession.
-Pizzagate was Epstein -Stolen elections are literally all just conservatives cheating -Biden crime family was just giving permission to the insane corruption of the whore family.
Conservatives need to go away for the safety of all life on earth.
They are insane pedophile supporting psychopaths that only care about money
Does the author not know that there’s a difference between a virus and a bacterium?
It’s funny how often you see this mistake made in articles about diseases. Like, people think bacteria and viruses are the same sorta nasty so what’s the big deal? FFS - the word ‘antibiotics’ ought to give them a clue that these things are treated very differently.
By all appearances, no.
We are all going to fucking die, aren’t we?
Eventually yes
I mean from this plague that they are likely going to stupidly released into the world.
No, probably not.
Will DDR5 become affordable if 90% of humanity dies?
No, because LLMs are all vaccinated.
I guess we’ve reached the point where LLMs are actually smarter that a portion of the population.
Unless, they used Norton’s…
to be fair, a playschool see-n-say is smarter than a decently large portion of hte population
climate change may be slowed or even reversed though.
Welp, time to get a somewhat more substantial face filter mask thing.
“Mah freedom!”
“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.
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…)
