Would only be an issue if this strain of bacterium were highly resistant to antibiotics. Cipro was used for anthrax so hopefully it could also treat anyone exposed to this.

I mean it's not great but I will say Siberia is about as good of a place as you can imagine as far as quickly quarantining a new outbreak. Low population density, and a very loose understanding of human rights.

that’s it! Cancel the midterms! We have a plague!!!

Did it come from a wet market?

All we know: A researcher died of pneumonia a week after breaking a test tube containing plague bacteria. Plague is usually treatable by antibiotics. The worry is she contracted some sort of untreatable pneumonic plague, which is deadly if left untreated. So far none of her close contacts have contracted plague.

What is this world coming to when you can't trust the safety measures and quality control at a secret Russian bio-lab?

3 hours ago, The_Omega said:

What is this world coming to when you can't trust the safety measures and quality control at a secret Russian bio-lab?

Who knows maybe ask Trump. you know Putin’s best buddy.

I blame McNabb.

On 10/6/2026 at 7:52 PM, barho said:

Who knows maybe ask Trump. you know Putin’s best buddy.

On 10/5/2026 at 8:51 PM, DEagle7 said:

I mean it's not great but I will say Siberia is about as good of a place as you can imagine as far as quickly quarantining a new outbreak. Low population density, and a very loose understanding of human rights.

Reminds me of the COVID totals by country. North Korea went from 1 to 0, to 1, to 0, to 1, to 0, to 1, to 0...