@disabilikate@Whippetartist@outbreakupdates diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis, HIB, Pneumococcal, Meningococcal, tuberculosis, typhoid and cholera are all bacterial infections that have preventative vaccines.
@AmeshAA that would be the case with any sample you take anywhere in the world right now - test 100 people and 2-4 of them will test positive for Covid.
Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and reported hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics.
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@AnnieJacobsen Daria Shiplova likely took antibiotics after this exposure, because she's not some green intern. Russian reporting says she was coauthor of research on the susceptibility of Y. pestis isolates from natural plague foci in Siberia to antibacterial drugs.
@DrWashburne@jimsciutto That's the R0 with the typical strain, like the Madagascar outbreaks. Is this the typical strain? Or has it been weaponized? It's a shame but we won't be able to trust Russia when they say "nothing to see here"
@DarnelSugarfoo ever heard of Radiohead? maybe google what Thom Yorke has said about REM continuously over the past 30 years
It's like saying The Pixies have no cultural footprint when there's Nirvana and Modest Mouse
@mattyglesias This is not confusing at all. It's to intimidate (or kill) protesters during the planned coup, final destruction of the US Constitution, and transition to dictatorship.