Stupid btch in Russia broke a plague vial and died

Here's the link:

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/europe/russia-laboratory-plague-accident-intl

You can't use anything else because it would either be porous, poor for observation, or more degradable. Glass is the optimal material and it's not just regular glass either, it's borosilicate designed to be used in labs. You shouldn't use metal because you create more risk having to unseal it every time you want to work with it and bulletproof glass uses plastics which are inefficient when considering that biospecimens are often sterilized with heat.

The measles here in the u.s. is gonna spread quicker. 😐

Yeah, they really should make sure the containers are perfectly sealed and unbreakable.

Hey, I think I've seen this movie.

The glass vial thing makes zero sense. That is not how modern labs work (I worked in one)) and the only source I can find for that claim is this single David Packman video.

Also not a fan of the fear mongering. Turning a tragedy that has been contained at a research lab into conspiracy theory tinfoil hat nonsense.


Let the woman rest in peace without turning everything into a bad cold war spy movie plot.

The reason the lab is there in the first place is because plague is endemic in the region meaning it is in the animal population.

This is something seen in the American South West too btw. In fact the CDC has had a huge campaign for years now trying to discourage so called "rattlesnake roundups" which are mass culling of rattlesnakes and have been connected to increased infected rat populations in southern border states.


But trying to tie this to cold war era games all sides played for fear mongering is just irresponsible.

Both the USSR and the US and even Canada had both bio weapons and active chemical weapons programs under the guise of research.


Hell the US nuclear umbrella exists under a bullshit pretense that all the tactical nukes in NATO countries are for "research".


Something the is explicitly banned by the Non Proliferation Treaty, but I guess that doesn't matter if you are in NATO.

If they knew what it was she should have been treated. Why didn't it work? Was this a biowar weapon?

This is mortal world. Everyone will die.

Must say that this plague is found naturally. 2000 people have been known to have died of it.

https://time.com/article/2026/10/05/russia-plague-fears-siberia-quarantine-lab-worker-died/

Stupidity has no limits.

This probably happens more often then we hear about but if containment works nobody gets sick. Something was wrong with the containment. Maybe it sliced through her glove. That would suggest her glove was possibly low quality.

That’s how resident evil started..

I'm sure she didn't decide what kind of container it was in.