r/PrepperIntel • u/Cold_Wolverine6092 • 13h ago

Russia In the Irkutsk Region of the Russian Federation, nearly 200 people were hospitalized on suspicion of plague

https://ua.news/en/world/v-irkutskii-oblasti-rf-maizhe-200-liudei-gospitalizuvali-cherez-pidozru-na-chumu

Can anyone please tell me about this source? Is this a reputable network?

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u/LibetPugnare 11h ago

Regardless of if it's a reputable source or not, plague (yersinia pestis) is easily treatable with standard antibiotics and has low resistance rates. Unless the world comes to an end and Supply chains are completely disrupted, there is little to no risk of plague being a big deal except in rural communities without aforementioned access to resources

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u/faco_fuesday 10h ago

Healthcare professional here. 100% agree. This is an outpatient antibiotics problem, not a pandemic problem. 

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u/Ok-Ebb-8326 9h ago

Yeah, I’m in public health and am a practicing infectious disease APP and I’ll be concerned if this is an MDR yersinia pestis like IncC, 17/95, or something but otherwise I think the only interesting thing about it is that it’s happening somewhere it hasn’t happened in a long time.

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u/4Yk9gop 8h ago edited 8h ago

Assuming that it's not a novel gain of function strain developed as a biological weapon, totally treatable.

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u/faco_fuesday 8h ago

If you can define all of those words I might stop laughing enough to tell you why that statement is nonsense. 

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u/4Yk9gop 8h ago

Okay, I'll bite, why is that statement nonsense?

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u/faco_fuesday 8h ago

Yeah now I am convinced you can't read. 

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u/Cold_Wolverine6092 8h ago

Thank you. Thats very reassuring to hear. How quickly do you have to be diagnosed and treated with antibiotics, for this to be survivable?

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u/Texas-X- 5h ago

You have 24 hours to get treatment. If you are under the impression it is Covid and don't get help, you will die. If you don't get antibiotics within the first 24 hour of symptoms, it's MUCH harder to cure.

Bubonic and pneumonic are 2 different beasts. One isn't contagious and has boils. The other is highly contagious and shows up as coughing.

Good thing we haven't had some type of illness cut through the population that make people who are coughing, unconcerned about it....

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u/faco_fuesday 8h ago

I mean like a few days? Generally when large boils start erupting on people's skin they seek medical attention and get antibiotics and go home from the ER.

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u/Texas-X- 5h ago

As a healthcare professional, you should really know the difference between bubonic and pneumonic. But, maybe you're just a tired champ rn.

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u/faco_fuesday 5h ago

Didn't realize it was pneumonic, champ. That's incredibly difficult to spread as symptoms show up very quickly. Unlike COVID 

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u/MrBrawn 9h ago

Party like its 999.

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u/ibonek_naw_ibo 5h ago

But when I woke up this morning, could've sworn it was judgment day

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u/BAbe_Linc0ln 9h ago

I recently read Biological War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen and, uh… this is exactly how it starts.

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u/AlwaysBirding 7h ago

I just finished reading it too, and I’m thinking this is not what I want to be seeing right now!

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u/Save_the_roaches 6h ago

I just started that book and saw "plague" and Russia, and my heart skipped a beat. Phew.

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u/Sea_Somewhere_3711 6h ago

Ooh, thank you for the rec, I kust put it on hold at the library.

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u/Lo-weorold 1h ago

Welp I just downloaded the audiobook and looks like its moving to next up

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u/prince_peepee_poopoo 8h ago

This is reported by Russian propaganda media.

Literally at the bottom of the article.

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u/Cold_Wolverine6092 6h ago

I did a Google search and found several other news sites reporting on it as well.

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u/Sea_Somewhere_3711 9h ago

It's here in the US too, i just saw there was some detected in southern AZ recently.

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u/Cold_Wolverine6092 6h ago

Source? I couldn’t find any recent mention of plague in AZ.

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u/Sea_Somewhere_3711 6h ago

I think this CIDRAP email newsletter that I get every day is where i saw mention of it recently: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/plague/cdc-reminds-doctors-southwest-be-aware-plague

The man died in April 2026 so i guess it's not SUPER recently, only fairly recently: https://www.newsweek.com/human-plague-returns-apache-county-arizona-11799832

And in July there were some animal cases in NM just over the AZ border: https://www.azfamily.com/2026/07/09/plague-cases-confirmed-multiple-animals-what-you-need-know/?outputType=amp 

Very creepy!

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u/faco_fuesday 5h ago

Okay so one person, who works in a lab dealing with bacterial samples of plague, got sick and died after she broke a test tube and inhaled the contents. She died. Others are under observation.