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Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague

222 points · 202 comments · ericmay

  1. poilcn · · focus · HN ↗
    This information that she "broke a tube" is tabloid bs.

    Non-tabloid version is that she didn't catch it in the lab, she got ill "while being on a research trip to Buryatia region near the border where sources of the disease were found".

    1. no-name-here · · focus · HN ↗
      OP article claims the former. Is there a better source for the latter?
      1. amdsn · · focus · HN ↗
        So far I have seen claims of her contracting it doing fieldwork in Buryatia only in telegram groups with no sources. The head of Buryatia Tsydenov released a statement saying she had not been there and that the republic doesn't have animals that carry it.
        1. tomaskafka · · focus · HN ↗
          Of course, Russias pure animals have no stinky diseases, and we can trust their officials every word they say. Also, Russia doesn’t have any gays, because that is a “western disease”.
          1. lionkor · · focus · HN ↗
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