Researcher broke a test tube. Seems like the standard protocols were followed afterwards, they were isolated and contracted the disease. For extra caution all individuals that made contact with them since have been placed in isolation to avoid spreading the disease.

It's times like this that I actually have to think "well, fuck, I'm glad it was Russia." If this was the US we might have some person screaming about a "plague party" and inviting all their friends to help spread it.

She was hospitalized Tuesday with symptoms of severe pneumonia in Shelekhov

If you had this plot point in a hollywood movie, people would be talking about how horrible the writing was.

Super cool, so odds this contamination spreads are pretty serious then, the odds of actually preventing it from having been spread to even one person at the hospital is so low...

Lockdown 2: Electric Boogaloo