The reported pneumonic plague outbreak in Siberia poses a significant public health risk due to its high contagiousness and fatality rate if left untreated.

#WeAreNotSafeUnderTrump 1/ “Russia Covers Up a Plague Outbreak A 28 year old researcher at a plague research institute in Siberia died on October 2nd. Local reports say she broke a test tube in the lab. Russian officials deny that. But the hospital ward where she died was sealed off over a “particularly dangerous infection.” Nearly 200 of her contacts are quarantined in the hospital. Daycare workers are getting protective gear. Russian news stories about it have been disappearing from the internet. And this morning, local Russian media are reporting a second death at a district hospital in the region, with the same illness. Pneumonic plague is the one form of plague that spreads person to person, through the air. Untreated, it’s almost always fatal. https://www.adamkinzinger.com/p/breaking-deadly-plague-outbreak-in

#WeAreNotSafeUnderTrump 1/ “Russia Covers Up a Plague Outbreak A 28 year old researcher at a plague research institute in Siberia died on October 2nd. Local reports say she broke a test tube in the lab. Russian officials deny that. But the hospital ward where she died was sealed off over a “particularly dangerous infection.” Nearly 200 of her contacts are quarantined in the hospital. Daycare workers are getting protective gear. Russian news stories about it have been disappearing from the internet. And this morning, local Russian media are reporting a second death at a district hospital in the region, with the same illness. Pneumonic plague is the one form of plague that spreads person to person, through the air. Untreated, it’s almost always fatal. https://www.adamkinzinger.com/p/breaking-deadly-plague-outbreak-in