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

229 points · 208 comments · ericmay

robmusial · 1791169542 · focus · HN ↗
I literally just finished Annie Jacobsen's book 'Biological War: A Scenario' last week where the central plot point is an accidental release of modified form of pneumonic plague from a lab in Siberia. Very coincidental timing, especially since it made me wonder how often labs like these have accidents and we never hear about them because it is cleaned up without issue.
1. petcat · 1791170758 · focus · HN ↗
  > made me wonder how often labs like these have accidents and we never hear about them because it is cleaned up without issue.
  Did anyone ever confirm if the lab in Wuhan China was the originator of COVID? I remember that was a rumor but never heard if there was anything to it.
  1. alexnewman · 1791171421 · focus · HN ↗
    I get downvoted every time I say this but the evidence doesn’t even prove it started in wuhan, or even China. It could of easily been brought here by the military games that happened before that
    theoreticalmal · 1791172345 · focus · HN ↗
    Do you have any thoughts as to why the FBI disagrees with your perspective?
    <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64806903" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64806903
    alexnewman · 1791173240 · focus · HN ↗
    They don’t disagree. They don’t know. They just said what’s most likely. They don’t even give a %
    1718627440 · 1791193100 · focus · HN ↗
    Well if you want something with percentages, the BND claims it is 85-90% likely that it comes out of a lab. <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/corona-das-coronavirus-stammt-laut-bnd-aus-einem-chinesischen-labor-a-d559ee9d-6674-433f-aa71-772003845a51" rel="nofollow">https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/corona-das-corona...

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