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Annie Jacobsen’s Crystal Ball: Possible Plague Leak in Siberia
A researcher at a Russian anti-plague laboratory in Siberia is dead. Hospitals have imposed quarantine measures. Hundreds of contacts have reportedly been monitored. Russia says there's no evidence she died from plague or that anything escaped from the lab.
And two months ago, Annie Jacobsen published Biological War: A Scenario — a novelistic account of an engineered form of pneumonic plague escaping from a Russian laboratory in Siberia.
The similarities are eerie. But eerie isn't evidence.
In this episode of Archer's Line: what we actually know about the mystery in Siberia, why scientists…
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