>The terrifying threat of a genetically engineered plague>Annie Jacobsen imagines the repercussions of a leak from a Russian laboratoryhttps://www.economist.com/culture/2026/07/30/the-terrifying-threat-of-a-genetically-engineered-plagueARTICLE FROM 7/30/2026NOW:>Vladimir Putin’s regime has been accused of covering up an outbreak of the ‘plague’ in Russia>...public events cancelled across the region.>Officials also ordered residents of neighbouring Baikalsk to avoid travelling to Shelekhov, where the outbreak is reported to have taken place, although the message was later deleted.https://metro.co.uk/2026/10/03/putin-accused-covering-plague-outbreak-compared-covid-29675982>Russian epidemiologist Mikhal Favorov disputed the account that a broken test tube caused the infection, calling it evidence of a possible cover-up, according to The Moscow Times.>“It’s laughable,” said Favorov. “Someone working at the anti-plague Institute in Irkutsk wears a protective anti-plague suit. If you break a test tub, the likelihood of infection is actually very low. In short, It doesn’t matter to the general public — they’ll believe the ‘dropped test tube story.'”https://nypost.com/2026/10/03/world-news/putin-regime-accused-of-plague-cover-up-after-scientist-dies-in-siberia
what about a chinese laboratory?
>>543731238>Shekelhov
i’d just like to reiterate that any time anybody even mentioned the wigan virology lab it was met with admonishment and cries of racism INCLUDING the idea that a broken beaker or vial could have been the catalyst.fuck these people, seriously.
Anne jacobson is playing a dangerous game. She gets another best seller but also probably death by plague.
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>Belgian defense chief warns of 'dark winter' for Europe, citing Russian ‘hybrid’ threatshttps://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/belgian-defense-chief-warns-of-dark-winter-for-europe-citing-russian-hybrid-threats/4074074>Operation Dark Winter was the code name for a senior-level bio-terrorist attack simulation conducted on June 22–23, 2001https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dark_Winterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tat6BZqlyDo
>The mortality rate from untreated pneumonic plague approaches 100%https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonic_plague
>>543731238Buy an ad, Annie. Also write better books
>“By the time a pathogen escapes from a lab and gets seeded in the population”, Ms Jacobsen writes, “it is almost certainly already too late.”https://archive.is/GDarr
Not a single intelligent being in the article or comments section here. Black plague was long solved and is as easy to cure as taking some antibiotics nowdays.Not a coincidence that the story seems to be originating from either British or Ukrainian sources, making it yet another stupid conspiracy for retarded cattle (western reader) that consume that shit, along with stories like 'ghost of Kiev', equally stupid and targeted at low iq westerners.If you actually believed any of that shit and got concerned about a medieval 'plague', congratulations, you are a retard.
>Belgian defense chief warns of 'dark winter' for Europe, citing Russian ‘hybrid’ threatshttps://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/belgian-defense-chief-warns-of-dark-winter-for-europe-citing-russian-hybrid-threats/4074074>Operation Dark Winter was the code name for a senior-level bio-terrorist attack simulation conducted on June 22–23, 2001https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dark_Winter>The terrifying threat of a genetically engineered plague>Annie Jacobsen imagines the repercussions of a leak from a Russian laboratoryhttps://www.economist.com/culture/2026/07/30/the-terrifying-threat-of-a-genetically-engineered-plague>Vladimir Putin’s regime has been accused of covering up an outbreak of the ‘plague’ in Russia>...public events cancelled across the region.>Officials also ordered residents of neighbouring Baikalsk to avoid travelling to Shelekhov, where the outbreak is reported to have taken place, although the message was later deleted.https://metro.co.uk/2026/10/03/putin-accused-covering-plague-outbreak-compared-covid-29675982>Russian epidemiologist Mikhal Favorov disputed the account that a broken test tube caused the infection, calling it evidence of a possible cover-up, according to The Moscow Times.>“It’s laughable,” said Favorov. “Someone working at the anti-plague Institute in Irkutsk wears a protective anti-plague suit. If you break a test tub, the likelihood of infection is actually very low. In short, It doesn’t matter to the general public — they’ll believe the ‘dropped test tube story.'”https://nypost.com/2026/10/03/world-news/putin-regime-accused-of-plague-cover-up-after-scientist-dies-in-siberia>The mortality rate from untreated pneumonic plague approaches 100%https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonic_plague
>>543733665>In pneumonic plague, if antibiotics are not started within 24 h, the mortality rates can reach 100%. Even with proper antibiotic treatment up to 50% of patients can still die due to the severity of the infection and many would require admission to an intensive care facility.>The emergence of antibiotic resistant strains of plague is a large public health concern, particularly with the possibility of a deliberate release of Y. pestis.>In nature, a number of antibiotic resistant strains of Y. pestis have been identified, including two human cases in Madagascar in 1995 where one was found to be resistant to streptomycin and the other had multidrug resistance (MDR).>From our understanding of the biology of antibiotic resistance in Y. pestis, which originated from plasmid transfer, there is significant potential for artificial creation of MDR plague.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2588933820300017
>>543733665>During the mid to late 1980’s, Russian scientists at Biopreparat made a major breakthrough.... Russian scientists were experimenting with the idea of taking Y. pestis [plague] and inserting various other known toxins into the cells. One day, the announcement was made at Biopreparat that such a design had been successfully made. They inserted a plasmid containing the gene for myelin toxin into Y. pestis . The design was simple and disturbing. If a patient were diagnosed with pneumonic plague in time to be treated, the antibiotics would attack and lyse the plague cells, thereby releasing the plasmid coding for myelin toxin which would cause paralysis, high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, and changes in behavior. Heralded as a major triumph for Mother Russia, Alibek explained, “A toxin-plague weapon was never produced before the Soviet Union collapsed, but the success of this experiment set the stage for further research on bacteria-toxin combinations.” (Alibek 1999).https://www.montana.edu/historybug/yersiniaessays/hale.html
