Suspected pneumonic plague kills Russian lab worker; ~200 under observation
And now we find that Russia is cultivating pneumonic plague in test tubes.
RiseUp!! (Formerly Maskup)14So now that this plague is from russia they'll wear masks, demand vaccines, and take it seriously, right?🙄
Cyndi 061413While plague occurs naturally in the wild, the US typically has less than 10 human cases per year. Plague is actually fairly easy to treat with antibiotics. If Russia is developing a drug resistant strain as a weapon, the whole world is at risk. It would spread like COVID, only far more deadly.
irisheyes☘️12This is Trump’s best buddy, who wouldn’t hesitate to use this deadly weapon in the U.S., too. Smart move Donnie Dotard made, alienating our allies in NATO. #25thAmendment
Dennis Hartley8Trump releases plague virus provided by his BFF Vlad, declares "national emergency", mobilizes troops, cancels midterm elections. Just sayin'.
pitusa.bsky.social7Time to stock up on invermectin. (Not)
Big Yard Bob6Oh is this why Peter Thiel moved to Argentina? I mean, aside from being a white power corpo-christian fascist pedophile who's bought full stock into fucking weirdo end time's prophecies?
A spectre is haunting Canada 👹5Says the American who filled their children's bodies with nuclear waste, mercury, lead, and now many communicable illnesses like Measles that are making a comeback.
janeapplpiprogress.bsky.social3WONDERING WHY THIS ISN'T BEING DISCUSSED IN MEDIA OR GOVT? I'm scared...shouldn't we all be? @sanders.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social
Pocket News 📰3And Trump’s CDC is in shambles.
Mask Wearing Doggie2Oh well, at least it's only pneumonic plague, not bubonic plague, right? /s
Sequentialkady2And guess who is the planned recipients of pneumonic plague?
yvonnebowie.bsky.social2Oh dear hasn't trump and RFK and Musk gutted the CDC - big massive oops there guys. Fauci as you are very experienced with these type outbreaks , tell them to F.O if asked to help jntil they apologise ! #USA #UK #Europe #health.
Malice In Plunderland2Yeah, I wonder why they’d do that, eh?
jashead2Yes, everything is all just normal as apple pie.
I’m sure Republicans will find a way to blame the Russian pneumonic plague issue on Fauci.
💐Flower 🌈 Power 🛖19It was caused when the virus escaped Hunter's laptop, bounced off Fauci's shoe, and landed in Putin's lab while Trump napped (using Natalie's bag for a pillow). This created a chain reaction, bouncing the virus off the empty reflecting pool which spread it faster than Press Secretary disinformation
Rip Torn 2 🌊17Republicans suffer from moronic plague.
Tim10It was a collaboration of Jack Smith, Dr. Fauci and windmills and they have the texts to prove it.
kgay2.bsky.social6And Biden. And really its all Obama’s fault.
FFS4The plague has been in the US always and has several cases a year. Please don't get dumb America started.
Ricky Wicketts3"The Plague is BEGGING to make a deal..."
Russian officials say she died from pneumonia of an unknown cause, and preliminary tests found no evidence linking her illness to the pathogens she worked with. There are still unanswered questions, but pneumonic plague has not been confirmed at this time.
Mari Adkins110I don't believe that. not for a second. next they'll be telling us she fell out a window.
Tooey18And we are expected to believe what Russia has to say about her cause of death? Naaah.
VorticityMaxima16Well, the Russians are known for their honesty, transparency and forthrightness.... just like the U.S. Why would either lie?
Lamama00712Right. They don't quarantine people for pneumonia.
WendyTSRQ8Reports now that 5 hospitals have been quarantined and people are masked up. Official reports are reminiscent of Cankles announcing that ' COVID in the US was only 5 cases and would soon be zero'.
Fuck this timeline 🫘7Are they working on bio weapons there by any chance?
Not to be "that guy" but it is pneumonic plague not bubonic plague. Same bacterium but lung rather than lymphatic system. Different mode of transmission (person to person rather than by rats). Not better (maybe worse) but different...
Sezneg23It’s worse actually. Bubonic plague only has like a 30% fatality rate, while pneumonic is closer to 100% if untreated. It absolutely destroyed places in Europe that experienced it vs bubonic.
Dan Schultz, LPN9People need to understand the difference. They sure weren't getting it from Mr. "Which part of my frontal lobe is functioning today"
Ned Wilcox6It's probably somewhat worse than bubonic, but any plague is very bad news. Fortunately, although pneumonic can be passed from person to person, it's far less contagious than Covid was. It also has a short incubation period (typically one to three days) and is treatable with antibiotics.
Leon Redbone℗4It's okay, I'm exactly "that guy/gal" also, and it can be blood borne sepsis (blood poisoning), buboes from infected rat/rodent fleas in the lymphatic system, or pneumonic as you said, and transmits airborne from coughs. All are Yersinia pestis bacterial infections, requiring early treatment.
sarahjeannette🇨🇦🇨🇦4Thank you for being "that guy". I was getting confused by the coverage since they were using the terms interchangeably which I was pretty sure was not the case. Still scary and the last pandemic is still too fresh in most of our memories.
sunbirdie.bsky.social4The sad thing is that we will not get a fact-based report on what the pneumatic plague is, how it's transmitted, prognosis, treatment or what the U.S. is doing in concert with the rest of the world to prevent its spread. Can you imagine RFK Jr trying to do that?
🍁 Dan McNeil3In the meantime, have a bleach smoothie and jam a UV light up your pooper, just in case...
Irony's Ghost2Jeremy - pneumatic Yersinia pestis is a killer of real note - and if someone dropped a tube of it and died very shortly after - and an entire section of siberia is cordoned off from the world if/if/if then they likely weaponised the bug as it 'sounds' too fast and too 'infective' otherwise -
Russia's plague mystery is raising immediate concerns for scientists, researchers and the White House. Here's what we know and don't know so far.
Marko Van Bastard the 93rd3Why is the White House concerned? The plague has already been there for 6 years out of the last 10.
ccolter.bsky.social2They say it's relatively easy to cure, but if they were working on it in a lab, chances are pretty high it's not so easy anymore.
Nidula_B2The White House? Lol - send them and the entire MAHA group over to investigate. No masks and no meds just clean eating MAHA style.
3ontap.bsky.social2You can raise concerns at the White House? With who?
Garden Misfits2Maybe the Russian people are being punished because their leader is a murderous piece of shit
RepugnantCon 1If Axios is reporting this then its 100% a Russian psyop meant to introduce a plague for disrupting things like a US mid term or overthrowing a dictator who lost a war against a country Russia invaded
It is now almost certain that the 28-year old Russian bio-weapons lab researcher who suddenly died succumbed to pneumonic plague, the most dangerous and easily transmittable of all plague variants. This means that Russia continues to produce, and likely enhance, weaponized pneumonic plague. 1/3
Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)44While it may seem counter-intuitive, this incident explains why the US must keep its bio labs operating. The reason is NOT to produce bio weapons. Instead, the reason to keep such pathogens alive is so that antidotes and treatments can be developed. Otherwise, we are defenseless. 2/3
WestTxWoman551This is EXACTLY what they are doing. I wonder if Trump is going to handle this correctly or will it be "emergency" enough to cancel elections and declare martial law? I wouldn't put anything past him.
☣️🦠 A Russian lab worker has died, and thousands are in quarantine after a plague outbreak. The World Health Organization says the pneumonic form of plague is especially contagious and "can trigger severe epidemics" @skynewsrss.bsky.social
Lee K3Well Trump wants an excuse to call for a national emergency and shut everything down.
Skee2Are there really 1000s in quarantine? I heard 200
🇺🇦 Edelweißpirat 🇱🇹2Let's wait to see if Pedolf Shitler calls it the "Russian Plague" oh wait he won't because Putin owns his nuts.
GenXer-711I'm sure it was Dr. Fauci. 🙄 /s!
US vs. Krasnov1Treatment…that you peasants can’t get
Hot Bean Juice ☕1There seems to be some debate as to how contagious it is. The reporter at the end of the piece seems to be of the opinion that it's not all that contagious.
GenXer-718Huh.. Are we getting closer to finding out more information in the Epstein Files?? Because Rump WOULD release the BLACK DEATH upon the globe to distract us. #EpsteinClass #PedoProtectors
Charlie Schulze2Someone needs to tell Trump its not just pneumonia, as he’s been saying. Oh wait, he knows more than anyone about everything, as he also has been saying. Totally stable genius my ass.
Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague as 200 enter medical observation The pneumonic plague is caused by the same bacteria as the bubonic plague, and can spread from person to person through airborne respiratory droplets. www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...
beena15.bsky.social2Great, is the comet next?
THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS2Be very careful if Trump starts talking about this. This has a "We have to postpone elections until this disease is under control." vibe to it.
David Collier1Seems odd because the worker realised what happened and would have had rapid pre-symptomatic antibiotic treatment which is associated with a high survival rate.
Asterix1Putin’s country seems to have a lot of “rats.”
Trump told reporters at the White House that the U.S. would help any country, including Russia, dealing with the pneumonic plague. Well let’s just send RFK jr. It’s not like we have the right people to do anything. I still don’t trust lettuce. And don’t get me started about the measles.🔄
buckled up baba rum raisin2Send Dr. Oz too. We need to send pros.
Medoyid_ua2Offering plague aid to the country bombing your ally while Ukraine waits on air defense is a hell of a priority list.
🇨🇦💚💙DomesticMetisGoddess💚💙🇨🇦 Names Jen!2He’s the last person anyone wants help from
Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine1Kathy Hochul just declared an emergency because of rising cases of measles in NY, it's only getting worse with RFK Jr at the helm. Hell yes, let's send him to Russia.
BD Max 🌵 🏜️ 🌄🌎🌏🌍💙🇺🇦🦋🧢1Well he’s so anxious to step right up and spend whatever amount to help Putin. He wanted Americans to suck it up and drink bleach during Covid. He did that. And you know Russia was likely developing a missile-born plague variant to fire into Ukraine. He’s a traitor. MAGAns…WAKE UP!!
Canadian concerned about America 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP1Send some Guinea pigs there……..like his entire administration, SCOTUS 6, Natalie Binky, his family and all the names in the Epstein files
The death of a Russian researcher who is believed to have shattered a test tube containing the pneumonic plague pathogen at a laboratory in Siberia has triggered worldwide alarm. Daria Shipilova, an employee at research institute in Russia’s Irkutsk region, accidentally broke the test tube on Sep 25
Ms Hart1If they knew she dropped the test tube and what was in it, why didn't they treat her immediately?
seekingjustice.bsky.social1I’m confused by this story. She knew she was working with the plague- but she didn’t get medical treatment? We’re told there are antibiotics that work on this type of plague- so why did she fall ill and die? So is this not the type of plague that responds to antibiotics? What are we missing?
