AUF1 questions plague alarm Cites vaccine and book

Apr 25, 2025

AUF1 calls parts of the coverage of a 28-year-old Siberian laboratory worker's death panic, identifies pneumonic plague only as a suspected cause and preserves Russia's denial and pneumonia account. It cites a Euronews headline about EU monitoring, earlier US monitoring and a warning from former Secretary of State/CIA director Mike Pompeo about authoritarian obstruction turning a manageable outbreak into a pandemic. It then retrospectively reports an Israeli April 2025 mRNA/modRNA study and attributes 100-percent protection in animal trials to the Times of Israel. Finally it describes Annie Jacobsen's July 2026 Biological War: A Scenario as a bestseller depicting a hypothetical genetically modified pneumonic-plague escape from a Siberian high-security laboratory and rapid societal collapse. It reports her Pentagon/CIA and DARPA contacts and a planned Devolution television adaptation with rights acquired by Universal Global Television. The opening preview repeats the vaccine/book comparison. The broadcast does not establish plague as the worker's diagnosis, a connection between the research or book and her death, human vaccine efficacy or a completed television series.

Israeli researchers publish an mRNA-vaccine study targeting pneumonic plague. AUF1's October 6 retrospective places the study in April 2025 and cites the Times of Israel's report of 100-percent protection in animal trials. The finding is preclinical protection, not proven human efficacy, an authorized vaccination campaign or evidence of a connection to the later Siberian worker case.