{"id":47978,"date":"2026-10-12T00:47:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T04:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47978"},"modified":"2026-10-12T00:47:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T04:47:54","slug":"russia-plague-quarantine-following-lab-death-should-we-be-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47978","title":{"rendered":"Russia plague quarantine following lab death: Should we be worried?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/10\/6\/russia-plague-quarantine-following-lab-death-should-we-be-worried?ICID=ref_fark\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AP26278372667862-1791274759.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:233px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plague is still endemic to Siberia, the location of the first known prehistoric human outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/10\/6\/russia-plague-quarantine-following-lab-death-should-we-be-worried\">Russia plague quarantine following lab death: Should we be worried?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are three main types of plague, affecting different parts of the body. These are bubonic, septicaemic and pneumonic<strong>. <\/strong>According to the World Health Organization (WHO), bubonic plague is the most common clinical form. Symptoms include painful swollen lymph nodes or \u201cbuboes\u201d.<br>Septicaemic plague infects the blood while pneumonic plague affects the lungs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plague is still endemic to Siberia, the location of the first known&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[2326,402,21],"class_list":["post-47978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-plague","tag-russia","tag-uh-oh","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47981,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47978\/revisions\/47981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}