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[–] 23 points 1 month ago

Just what I was missing in my life, another plague

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

    Do you miss the COVID years?

    Have we got news for you!

    Ukraine's United24 website has an article with more details, unfortunately the story originates from the Murdoch-owned The Sun newspaper, which may indicate Russian propaganda

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (6 children)

    Plague my ass. Something like plague would not make high officials travel to the area and it also wouldn't cause the censor apparatus to scrub everything. Plague is treated with standard antibiotics and supporting measures when needed. There's no need for anyone coming from Moscow for something like this.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    This is what I was wondering. Cases of Yersinia pestis are not unheard of around the world, especially in rural areas. It's highly treatable. This has to be something different, or the media is just making it out to be something bigger than it is

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Oh, for the russian government swooping in so fast when it only concerns a few unimportant people there must be something behind it. They didn't even give a fuck in Chernobyl until the entire world was in the know, why should they here?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    It's Plague, or something, from a lab.

    Existing antibiotics may not be able to treat it, because it may have been engineered or otherwise bred to defeat existing drugs. Resistant bacteria are increasingly common in our hospitals.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (2 children)

    I realize the situation around MRSA worldwide and STDs especially in some areas in the USA becoming badly resistant, it sucks (and is mainly self-inflicted by society). But hospitals are not full of Yersinia pestis which then comes into contact with low doses of antibiotics, not even in Russia i hope. They were messing around with things better being kept untouched, but that's another thing societies are bad at, especially the russian society.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Bacteria routinely exchange genes across different species.

    It's entirely conceivable to accidentally or deliberately put MRSA and Yersinia pestis together in the same environment to breed Methicillin-resistant Yersinia Pestis.

    Here in the States, the medical system has clamped down on routine (human) antibiotic use much more than they used to prescribe them, but in Russia, who knows?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Don't believe the story of how it happened.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    This story makes no sense and yet media is running with words like "outbreak".

    She broke a vial of yersinia pestis bacteria, but there was no bacterial infection.

    no “microorganisms linked to the employee’s professional activities were detected” in her body, and that there had been “no new cases” of illness among other employees of the lab.

    So...

    1. There is no outbreak

    2. Someone died of pneumonia, as do 2.5 million worldwide every year.

    3. she happened to work in a lab. Where she was wearing PPE.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago
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    [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    Fuck that was the lab where they were breeding smallpox into regular sized pox

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    Possible b weapons against Ukraine?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    Being Russia, there are either 3000 infected or it's all bullshit yo fear their bioweapons program.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Who had COVID 26 on their bingo card?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    What are the chances our dumbass leaders and the dumbass leaders of Russia aren't using covert germ warfare constantly?

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Oh, FFS.

    And we have the worst fucking people in this administration right now...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Maybe by dumb luck the measles virus will cancel out the plague virus lol

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Huh..just saw the special on how only two places have smallpox samples...US is one...guess where the other one is. :(

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Thought the same thing when I saw the headline the first time. Augmented smallpox virus to finish off the Ukrainians escaped containment is my guess.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    I don't think they would use smallpox. It's way too infectious and would get out of control fast. It would end up fucking over the Russians as much as the Ukrainians. At least that's what I hope but at this point I can't really predict what would happen.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    There are effective vaccines against smallpox.

    I think that if a belligerent were to use the disease as a biological weapon, it would first secretly stockpile large quantities of vaccine. Once the disease breaks out, there would be a window of opportunity lasting a few weeks to a few months during which one could gain an advantage, because the enemy would first have to ramp up vaccine production and vaccination rates. When I think about it, however, I have serious doubts as to whether such preparations in the 21st century could be kept secret enough to actually surprise the enemy (in this case, the West).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Assuming it's the base smallpox virus. Both the Russians and Americans have experimented with it since the cold war. We have no idea what they could have done to it in the meantime.

    But yea, a sudden program of smallpox vaccinations would spoil the plan pretty fast. So at least that's a relief.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    So while Russia was accusing Ukraine of producing bioweapons, they were actually doing it themselves?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    I think the "Anti-" is a typo.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Look, if things aren’t going to get better, I can at least try to prove I’m better than 14th century peasants.

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