Last week on October 2nd, a Russian lab technician at an Anti-Plague Research Institute succumbed to an unknown illness two days after becoming ill. Darya Shipilova, 28, who worked with infectious diseases like cholera and the plague, had recently visited Thailand before being hospitalized near the Russian city of Irkutsk. Following her death, some ~200 individuals who had been in contact with Shipilova, as well as the hospital she was treated in, were preemptively quarantined.