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This story makes no sense and yet media is running with words like “outbreak”.
She broke a vial of yersinia pestis bacteria, but there was no bacterial infection.
no “microorganisms linked to the employee’s professional activities were detected” in her body, and that there had been “no new cases” of illness among other employees of the lab.
So…
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There is no outbreak
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Someone died of pneumonia, as do 2.5 million worldwide every year.
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she happened to work in a lab. Where she was wearing PPE.
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Don’t believe the story of how it happened.
Just what I was missing in my life, another plague
Maybe this time an actual lab leak and bio weapon?
They had a huge bioweapons program during the soviet era. Probably have restarted it.
They also had a huge bioweapons accidental release.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_biological_weapons_program
Do you miss the COVID years?
Have we got news for you!
Ukraine’s United24 website has an article with more details, unfortunately the story originates from the Murdoch-owned The Sun newspaper, which may indicate Russian propaganda
Plague my ass. Something like plague would not make high officials travel to the area and it also wouldn’t cause the censor apparatus to scrub everything. Plague is treated with standard antibiotics and supporting measures when needed. There’s no need for anyone coming from Moscow for something like this.
It’s Plague, or something, from a lab.
Existing antibiotics may not be able to treat it, because it may have been engineered or otherwise bred to defeat existing drugs. Resistant bacteria are increasingly common in our hospitals.
I realize the situation around MRSA worldwide and STDs especially in some areas in the USA becoming badly resistant, it sucks (and is mainly self-inflicted by society). But hospitals are not full of Yersinia pestis which then comes into contact with low doses of antibiotics, not even in Russia i hope. They were messing around with things better being kept untouched, but that’s another thing societies are bad at, especially the russian society.
Bacteria routinely exchange genes across different species.
It’s entirely conceivable to accidentally or deliberately put MRSA and Yersinia pestis together in the same environment to breed Methicillin-resistant Yersinia Pestis.
Here in the States, the medical system has clamped down on routine (human) antibiotic use much more than they used to prescribe them, but in Russia, who knows?
Yeah, you could probably do that, but in a lab setting this has to be an deliberate effort.
This is what I was wondering. Cases of Yersinia pestis are not unheard of around the world, especially in rural areas. It’s highly treatable. This has to be something different, or the media is just making it out to be something bigger than it is
Oh, for the russian government swooping in so fast when it only concerns a few unimportant people there must be something behind it. They didn’t even give a fuck in Chernobyl until the entire world was in the know, why should they here?
