Dozens of people were reported to be in isolation after a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague and other infectious diseases died of an undisclosed illness.

The researcher, a 28-year-old female laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia, in the town of Shelekhov, died after being diagnosed with a pneumonia of “unknown” origin, according to Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian agency that handles infectious disease.

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[–] 0 points 2 weeks ago

It reminds me of like January-February 2020.

Like, listening to the radio and every morning the news headlines are "there are now X confirmed cases and extending as far as Y, Z, and W"

And every day, X gets a little bigger, and Y, Z, and W get a little further from Wuhan, until you start to notice that it's actually getting closer to you. And then you hear about the first reported cases in your country. Et cetera...

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