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Russia Says It Wasn’t Plague. So What Was It?
A researcher at a Russian anti-plague laboratory is dead. Russian officials say thousands of tests have found no dangerous pathogen, and there is no evidence of a plague outbreak.
But the World Health Organization still doesn't know what killed Darya Shipilova.
In this follow-up to my earlier piece about Annie Jacobsen's Biological War: A Scenario, I look at what we know, what remains unconfirmed, and why Russia's history of covering up disasters — including Sverdlovsk and Chernobyl — makes independent verification so important.
The evidence is reassuring in some respects. The unanswered…
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