AUF1 questions plague alarm Cites vaccine and book

Jul 28

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.

Annie Jacobsen's Biological War: A Scenario is published in the United States in July 2026. AUF1's October 6 retrospective describes a bestseller and a hypothetical genetically modified pneumonic-plague escape from a Siberian high-security laboratory leading rapidly to deaths, quarantine and societal collapse. It reports Jacobsen's Pentagon/CIA and DARPA research contacts and a planned Devolution adaptation with rights acquired by Universal Global Television. This is a book's scenario and reported adaptation plan, not a verified prediction, proof about the real worker's death or a completed series.