The death of a Russian lab technician researching the plague has set off alarms abroad and at home as observers note resemblances to the conditions that some theorized preceded the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Russian lab worker’s mysterious death of suspected pneumonic plague has led to quarantines and global alarm. Here’s what ...

The death of a 28-year-old woman who worked in an anti-plague laboratory in Russia is raising concerns about what caused her ...

A top official with the World Health Organization says the U.N. health agency doesn’t know how a lab employee in Siberia died ...

Russia has declared a Covid-style plague quarantine in Siberia after a lab worker died and Putin's government has been accused of a cover up.

The World Health Organization is pressing Russia for more information on the death of a worker in a plague lab, saying that what’s been disclosed so far makes it impossible ...

Kuppalli is an infectious diseases physician and former World Health Organization medical officer. Welcome to the debut of ID Consult, a new STAT column from infectious disease physician Krutika ...

A woman’s death last week near a Russian facility studying the plague immediately put the world on alert. This is the plague, ...

Maria Van Kerkhove said the agency did not know what the ‘causative agent’ was behind the woman’s October 2 death.

A technician at a lab that studied the plague died of "pneumonia of undetermined etiology." The post Something About Russia ...

Marshall Billingslea warns the Irkutsk researcher's death could involve antibiotic-resistant plague engineered under the ...

IntroductionIn October 2026, Darya Shipilova, a 28-year-old employee at the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Irkutsk, Russia ...