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I don't think there is any actual evidence that it was a broken test tube because she would have started on prophylactic antibiotic treatment immediately.

Luckily you need to be in close contact with someone already very sick to catch it. It's not silent transmission like COVID. But maybe there is something different about this outbreak?

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> I don't think there is any actual evidence that it was a broken test tube

What does this mean? The article we’re discussing says the woman who died told colleagues she broke a test tube.

>The article we’re discussing says the woman who died told colleagues she broke a test tube.

The article links to a telegram post [1] as source, which links to another telegram post [2], which now has an update:

>It is not known exactly how Darya Shipilova contracted the plague. Currently, the theory involving a broken test tube is the leading one, but there is no official confirmation or independent verification of this information.

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[1] https://t.me/Govorit_NeMoskva/70406

[2] https://t.me/Baikal_People/16629

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