Russia plague quarantine following lab death: Should we be worried?

Dozens of people have been quarantined in Russia’s Siberia after a laboratory worker at a plague research institute fell ill and died in undisclosed circumstances.Russian news outlet People of Baikal reported the woman may have contracted pneumonic plague from a broken test tube and died.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague in Siberia; US monitoring caselist 2 of 3Trapped in occupied Oleshky: Ukrainians face hunger, drones and landmineslist 3 of 3Ukraine says Russian drone attack sinks ship in Romanian watersend of listPlague is a severe, life-threatening infection caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Between 1346 and 1353, the bubonic plague – one of three forms of the disease – was known as the Black Death. It caused one of the most fatal pandemics in the world across Eurasia and North Africa. Some 30-60 percent of the population of Europe is believed to have died in that outbreak.Pneumonic plague is less common than bubonic plague. It is a severe form of the infection that can spread from person to person.What happened in the Russian lab and should we be worried?Here’s what we know:What happened in the Russian lab?On Monda...