She Wrote About a Plague Lab Disaster. Two Months Later, This Happened.

A 28-year-old worker at a Russian anti-plague research institute has died from a mysterious case of severe pneumonia. Russia says it wasn’t plague—but the WHO is still asking questions.

What makes the story even stranger? Just two months earlier, investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen published a book imagining a biological disaster involving pneumonic plague and a laboratory in Siberia.

Coincidence—or a warning about a much bigger danger? We look at what’s actually known, Russia’s secretive history of biological weapons research, and what remains unproven.

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