Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection
Russian authorities are responding to an incident in which a dangerous infection was released as a result of a laboratory accident in Siberia and a researcher died.
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Captain Trips
The person died of pneumonia. There is zero evidence she got infected in the facility. People die of pneumonia every day.
“No micro-organisms associated with the employee’s professional duties were detected in samples taken from the patient,”
I case you comment without actually reading the article.
This is a great time to watch Survivors (1975):
In a similar vein for those who prefer to read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Canadian
Yeah, that's not alarming at all ...
If this spreads and lockdowns and mask mandates come back, an entire portion of the US population will go actually, literally insane.
The Sun (which sucks, but often gets facts right underneath all the slanted coverage and yellow journalism) said
They're already saying the quarantine there is to last for three weeks.
Despite there not being any other known current infections, Wikipedia's entry for the town of Shelekov now has a subsection for "2026 epidemic".
Guess I'll be poking at This Week In Virology again for a while ....
while you are quoting,
“No micro-organisms associated with the employee’s professional duties were detected in samples taken from the patient,”
And, the plague was not caused by a virus.
Thank you for your summary. I don’t want to try to alarm you any further, but another thing I suspect – which also happened in Wuhan during the initial outbreak – is that it’s already much worse than what they’re admitting right now.
As a side note, I think the
AntiPlague Research Institute in Shelekhov can start removing some letters from the facade of their building.Put Trump's name on it.
Wuhan also had the countries largest wet markets where wild animals are gathered from hundreds of square kilometers and placed in cages to shit and piss on top of each other. This is where SARs/COV1 was proven to originate, and the reason why Wuhan had a research facility in the first place.
The rest is all Facebook/MAGA bullshit. China's fault lied in not regulating wet markets, which they still don't do, so the next SARs/COV will again come from China.
Please read the sentence again more carefully. I’m not talking about the lab leak theory. I’m talking about the fact that the Chinese authorities knew about the outbreak with an unknown respiratory virus for a long time and decided not to inform the WHO until the cat – or the bat, if you will – was already out of the bag and across the planet.
That has nothing to do with FB / MAGA conspiracy theories. It’s the official reading of the WHO and US Congress. In fact, they didn’t even inform the WHO. The WHO had to find out through unofficial back channels and had to ask the Chinese government for verification themselves.
Patient 0 got sick on the 1st of December. And later the first known case was traced back to the 17th of November.^2^
They could replace them with "Trump."
Yes it makes no sense but it will once the Plague takes out 80% of the MAGA antimask antivaxxers.
And he'd love it. As long as you use gold letters
Trump isn't putting any mask mandate into place even if the rest of the world did it. The government wont test for it like it should be because then there is no way of knowing how rampant the lies is spreading.
Well that seems less than ideal
Reported to be pneumonic plague
The worst kind, airborne.
Someone get AI on the case, stat!
Ok. The 2026 pandemic has been deleted from the timeline.
🌟🎉
The Andromeda Strain.
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Oh no, not again.
Every time Trump gets elected, there's a plague.