The Moscow Times:#

Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague.

At least 197 people who may have had contact with her were reportedly placed under medical isolation, including more than 100 in hospital wards.#

According to someone on Xwitter (totally unverified) she worked in a lab. There’s some random interesting stuff in the thread:#

… what worries me the most because Russia has designed to kill. In short, they took the bacteria and made changes to it to make it worse. For example, it's known that they designed one where taking antibiotics (the cure) triggers a toxin to kill you from something else.#

I really hope this story doesn’t become a bigger story, it fizzles out, and we don’t hear about it again. It does sound like Russia is actually taking steps to contain it. But I never really thought about Russia having bio-weapons (but it makes sense).#