Hopefully it's contained, because if we get another pandemic conservatives are going to do everything in their power to make it kill as many people as possible.

Aw shit, here we go again…

Wikipedia is already referencing articles saying it's a pathogen related to the Black Death.

And for people worried about it, the World Health Organization (WHO) says that "today it can be easily treated with antibiotics and the use of standard preventative measures."

Anti-Plague Research Institute

I bet I know what this mystery virus is

For all folks concerned of massive epidemic:

• The people who contacted her after the incident are isolated, the hospital quarantined
• Yes, there is a vaccine. People are not commonly vaccinated because plague is very rare nowadays, but they can be as needed.
• It can be cured by antibiotics. Care needs to be prompt though, and that's what Daria very recklessly missed. Fatal mistake for someone who oopsied in a pathogen lab.

Also, to those concerned that this is a biological weapon lab:

• This would be the most stupid and inefficient biological weapon. Again, we have the vaccine AND the cure.
• Disease research institutes are a normal thing throughout the world. We need them to efficiently combat outbreaks should they ever reappear.

Wow. What’s Putin doing, manufacturing plague to deal with Ukraine?

oh hey look somebody wrote a book about this exact scenario recently...

So if Putin calls it the Anti-Plague Research Institute we can be pretty sure they're actively creating plagues right?

They really are going all out for the midterms. A new pandemic

“Anti Plague Research Institute”.

That’s a funny way of translating “Illegal Biological Warfare Institute”.

I gotta say the moment the RUSSIANS start taking things like this seriously is usually quite late. So uuuuuuuh

Does the author not know that there's a difference between a virus and a bacterium?

How could Joe Biden and the Democrats let this happen! They're only doing this yo make Trump look bad, and after the election it will conveniently disappear.

• stuff said by right-wingers about covid in mid-2020

Everybody get ready to add a "Russian Plague" box to your bingo card.

T-Virus time?

I look forward to conservatives fighting for their right to get bitten by zombies.

Anyone who wants something extra to feel anxious about should read the hot zone by Richard Preston. It's about Ebola, not plague, but it's. . . alarming. Ebola is a virus, not a bacteria like plague, but the difficulty of containment even in secure labs, and the possibilities of mutation - as far as I know, they're not dissimilar. Especially if a government lab has been fucking around trying to weaponise it, as I suspect happened here.