My pandemic tracker idea below was just coincidence
I only just stumbled on this plague story...
Last week I listened to the book by Jacobsen...
Normal plague can be stopped by anti-biotics- so why did this person die, and why do they feel the need to quarantine 200 people if its 'normal' plague...
Russia made antibiotic resistant versions with additional nastiness engineered into the pathogen... manipulated it to make it super transmissible