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.
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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.
Sure, but they got Ivermectin
And I’ve a Mac10 it’s a panacea of sorts too!