Roughly 200 people are under medical observation, several hospitals are under quarantine, and dozens are in isolation in Russia following the unexplained death of an infectious disease researcher at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia, in the town of Shelekhov, according to early reports of the situation on Sunday and Monday.
Researcher Darya Shipilova reportedly died last week from pneumonia of “unknown” cause, according to Rospotrebnadzor, a Russian public health agency.
I saw this in the paper today and was really freaked out: I wandered off task at work on Wikipedia yesterday and was reading about the Aral Sea drying up …and the weapons labs there.
Different region, but still creeped me out all The Stand style.