Digested week: Don’t worry about the plague, go and read some Anne Carson | Emma Brockes
This is a friend – a medic – texting me after reading reports at the weekend of the 28-year-old Russian woman who died while working at a “plague research…
The Guardian reports that this is a friend – a medic – texting me after reading reports at the weekend of the 28-year-old Russian woman who died while working at a “plague research lab” in Siberia.
The world may be going to hell in a handcart, but at least now I get to say I know a Nobel prize winner “Anyone worried about pneumonic plague?”
This politics story centres on Russia. Names and organisations mentioned in the coverage include Anne Carson, Emma Brockes and Russian.
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- Location
- Russia · Europe
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- The Guardian
- First reported
- Key names
- Anne Carson, Emma Brockes, Russian, Nobel
- Section
- Politics
- Figure cited
- Namely: lab-grown disease cultivated for reasons unknown and with a 100% mortality rate escapes Russian facility into general… (The Guardian)
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