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VCU: Pneumonic Plague Concern - Here's What We Know, and Don't Know, About a Suspicious Death and Russian Secrecy
October 10, 2026
RICHMOND, Virginia, Oct. 10 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news:

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Oct. 9, 2026

Pneumonic plague concern: Here's what we know, and don't know, about a suspicious death and Russian secrecy

VCU political scientist and global health expert Judyth Twigg explains the mystery and the history tied to a lab worker's death in Siberia.

By Sian Wilkerson

The recent death of a pathogen . . .

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