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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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[-] Photonic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yes, that is what the Russians are telling everyone. Sorry, I’m not keeping my hopes up for Russian officials telling the truth. They knew what happened, they knew what she had, antibiotic treatment for it is widely available and they could have started them right away. Yet she died.

I don’t know the details of the experiments that were going on but if it is a resistant strain that would be very worrying indeed. It’s way too early to say everything is fine before we really know what happened. Only time will tell.

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