A researcher at a BSL-4 in Hungary during the Covid-19 pandemic. | Akos Stiller/Bloomberg via Getty Images A woman’s death last week near a Russian facility studying the plague immediately put the world on alert. This is the plague, after all, responsible for the deaths of some half of the humans in Europe during the worst outbreak in the 1300s. And it happened in Russia, a country with a long history of bioweapon experimentation. After the Covid-19 pandemic — which many people, including many scientists, genuinely believe started with the virus escaping from a Chinese laboratory — th...
The real reason the Russia plague case should scare you
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Oct 6, 2026 • 2 hours ago
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