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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] meat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Is this a concern with modern medicine?

[–] Unleaded8163@fedia.io 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Just in case you've been sleeping too well lately: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a74033610/russia-plague-lab-worker-dies

In the 20th century, biological warfare researchers learned how to make the plague much more deadly through genetic engineering.

Together, with social engineering even more insidious and addicting, they'll have a drastically diminished and ground down populace incapable of mounting an effective rebellion —just in time for them to clinch the automation of their wealth without us. It's guns be a blast.☝🏼

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The report said 189 people were being monitored following the illness of an employee at an anti-plague research institute in Irkutsk. Alexei Tsydenov, head of the nearby Republic of Buryatia, said the woman had died from an unspecified form of plague.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 days ago

anti-plague research institute

Looks inside: epicenter of the next pandemic 👍

These epidemiologists aren't doing their jobs right.

[–] shartgargle@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Unspecified form of pneumonia*

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] shartgargle@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago

Yes, but Russia hasn't admitted that yet.

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 6 points 6 days ago

If it's just a plague, no. If it was weaponized, possibly. But that's unlikely.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsoA2aaE2hM

I once got down voted to hell because I was accused of Russophobia. I am not. These plagues, no matter where they originate, are not natural, they are bioengineered on purpose to be resilient against modern medicine AND the use of antibiotics might even boost their lethality.

Bioweapons need to be made the most illegal of all weapons. More than nukes, too.

[–] atrizzy@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We could, and would, quickly run out of antibiotics in the case of exponential spread.

will

No one's stepping up to staunch this, and I've played way too much Pandemic to not see the crayon on the WH wall.

[–] be_gt@feddit.nu 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

A woman died and her colleagues are being quarantined from their family in a building. Usually it's not a problem, but apparently in russia, it is.