Emergency quarantine protocols are in place in Irkutsk after a suspected laboratory accident

Russian health authorities have reportedly placed hundreds of people in quarantine in Siberia following the death of a laboratory worker who was exposed to an “unknown” virus.

The 28-year-old victim was an employee at the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, a town near the regional capital of Irkutsk, according to reports.

Prior to her death, she reportedly told medical personnel that she had accidentally broken a test tube containing live biological samples while working inside the facility.

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    6 hours ago

    Why is this comment buried here? It’s literally the solution! Do people love the thrill of panicking? Internet, you so silly sometimes…

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      3 hours ago

      Chat how easy it is to brew an antibiotic resistant strain of plague considered we created some resistant diseases fully by accident?

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      6 hours ago

      renowned current health guidance has a high likelihood of failing to apply to new genetically-modified variants

      (if that is the case)