alt Hacker NewsI've read this story before, in Russian, and, honestly, it doesn't make any sense to me.
According to Wikipedia, plague responds to antibiotics very well, since it is a bacteria, not a virus and it hasn't been widespread since the development of antibiotics, so it didn't develop any resistance to antibiotics.
If she knew that she broke a flask with plague (and, as I understand, she did know that), why don't start a course of antibiotics immediately, before any symptoms? Wouldn't she be totally fine it this case?
Don't be fixated on the "tube" thing; it's at the rumour-level certainty at this point (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49960955).
On the other hand "Baikal People" post from today is more worrying, as it says they quarantined 4 hospitals for 3 weeks: https://t.me/Baikal_People/16651