When Lucinda Marker heard of the suspected death from ‘plague’ of 28-year-old laboratory technician Darya Shipilova in Russia last week, she was overcome by a harrowing sense of recognition.
‘This disease changes your life. When I saw the news, I thought it could be bioterrorism. This is such a rare disease: there has to be something else going on.’
Though Russia has refused to confirm the cause of Shipilova’s death, reports claim that she became ill after dropping a test tube containing a sample of the pneumonic plague pathogen at her laboratory. The hospital in which Shipilova was treated was placed under
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