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Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection (www.cnn.com)
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Russian authorities are responding to an incident in which a dangerous infection was released as a result of a laboratory accident in Siberia and a researcher died.

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[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

while you are quoting,

“No micro-organisms associated with the employee’s professional duties were detected in samples taken from the patient,”

And, the plague was not caused by a virus.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

we have identified this patient died of "normal' pneumonia after being directly exposed to "super" pneumonia. we didn't find anything wrong, and do not ask any more questions.

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