The incident occurred at the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, near Irkutsk [...] a “suspected case of a particularly dangerous infection affecting a resident of the region,”

Yeah, that's not alarming at all ...

an aluminum plant near the laboratory instructed staff to wear masks as a precautionary measure. [...] nearly 200 people were placed under observation at the hospital in Shelekhov [...] Quarantine has also been imposed in at least one of the city’s maternity hospitals [...] "even if [plague is] confirmed, there will be no spread of this disease,”

If this spreads and lockdowns and mask mandates come back, an entire portion of the US population will go actually, literally insane.

The Sun (which sucks, but often gets facts right underneath all the slanted coverage and yellow journalism) said

She was said to have become ill after breaking a test tube at Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute where she worked earlier this week.

They're already saying the quarantine there is to last for three weeks.

Despite there not being any other known current infections, Wikipedia's entry for the town of Shelekov now has a subsection for "2026 epidemic".

Guess I'll be poking at This Week In Virology again for a while ....