InStreet SciencebyJames Street·Oct 12Bring Out Your Dead: The Plague in 2026Bubonic Plague is endemic in prairie dogs, which are common across the Western US.
GeopoliticsNow360·Oct 10Russia’s Plague Lab Lost a Researcher. Four Officials Gave Four Different Answers.The Irkutsk institute that studies history’s deadliest bacterium says it found no plague. The pattern of denial is what keeps the world’s…A response icon1A response icon1
Brad Roth·Oct 9Bob Park’s What’s New: Friday, October 9, 2026No, Bob Park — the physicist who wrote the What’s New newsletter for years — did not write this. Instead, I am imagining what Park would…
Aymane Yousfi·Oct 7Russia Denied a Plague Outbreak. Then It Deleted the EvidenceOn October 2, a 28-year-old lab technician died at Siberia’s anti-plague institute after a suspected exposure to pneumonic plague. Nearly…A response icon1A response icon1
InFrontline SignalbySasha Goddall·Oct 7The Irkutsk plague scare: what we know, what we don’tOn the nite of 1 to 2 October a 28-year-old woman, working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute, died in the district hospital of…
InThe Story WellbySeanstechblog·Oct 6Life Imitating Art or Vice Versa?With the news of the black plague in Russia, now there are conflicting reports. People point to China with COVID, and now I’m watching…
