Vladimir Putin is facing a fresh crisis at home while he ramps up his war against Ukraine: a freak lab accident involving pneumonic plague and a frantic campaign to cover it up.
The dizzying turn of events began in the Irkutsk region of Siberia on Friday, when news broke of a 28-year-old woman dying of suspected pneumonic plague at a hospital in the town of Shelekhov. Several local reports say she worked as a lab technician at a research institute and accidentally broke a vial containing the plague pathogen; other reports say she had just returned from a work trip and may have contracted it elsewhere.
Pneumonic plague is the most virulent form of plague, spreading from person to person through respiratory droplets in the air. Authorities initially began loudly sounding the alarm over the “especially dangerous infection,” but then just as quickly began removing all traces of the possible outbreak.
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