A broken test tube in a Siberian laboratory is enough to spark headlines about a plague panic. The Public Health Agency of Sweden sees no major outbreak, but the media has already made up its mind: the world will come to an end in a new plague outbreak.
Swedish media are reporting on the plague in Russia, but the basis for this is a single death in Irkutsk, Siberia. A laboratory employee is said to have died after a test tube containing live plague bacteria was shattered, and according to SvD About 200 people have been placed in quarantine. No cases of transmission outside the laboratory have been confirmed.
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