https://imahealth.substack.com/p/russia-plague-mystery-separating?
Russia Plague Mystery: Separating Fact From Social Media Hype
IMA’s Dr. Ryan Cole says Russia’s suspected plague death is unconfirmed and not an outbreak. After COVID, Americans should demand evidence before fear.
October 8, 2026
IMA Head of Medical and Scientific Affairs Dr. Ryan Cole joined The National News Desk to separate fact from fiction in reports of a suspected plague death in Russia. A young woman who worked at a plague research laboratory in Siberia died after developing severe pneumonia, but testing has not confirmed plague. Dr. Cole explains that the story first spread through a Telegram channel, and that 90% of the roughly 200 people placed under observation have already been released. One death, he notes, does not make an outbreak.
Dr. Cole also takes on social media posts linking the case to an experimental mRNA plague vaccine, which he points out has only been studied in animal models. He explains that pneumonic plague rarely spreads from person to person, is treatable with antibiotics when caught early, and circulates on every continent except Australia among rodents and fleas most people rarely encounter. Looking back at COVID, when conclusions were drawn before the evidence was in, he urges Americans to demand evidence before believing a viral headline.
Check out these related resources from IMA below, followed by the full segment transcript.
- Post: Suspected Plague Death in Russia: Dr. Ryan Cole Urges Vigilance, Not Fear
- Post: Plague in Russia? After COVID, Americans Don’t Know Whom to Believe, and That Should Alarm Everyone
(See link for interview and transcript)
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https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/usda-ordered-6-million-doses-of-experimental?
USDA Ordered 6 Million Doses of ‘Experimental’ Plague Vaccine the Same Month DEFUSE Proposed Spraying Its Carrier on Bats
The order was six times existing demand and equal to nearly 28 years of later annual bait sales, while DEFUSE-linked spray technology identified applications for “animals/humans.”
Oct. 8, 2026
According to a March 2018 U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) contract award to Colorado Serum Company, the federal government contracted for an estimated 6 million doses of recombinant raccoonpox plague vaccine, using the same vaccine-carrier platform Project DEFUSE proposed that month for spraying vaccine material onto bats.
The plague-vaccine order was six times the doses USDA said it needed for existing customers and equivalent to nearly 28 years of the depot’s subsequently reported annual vaccine-bait sales.
Meanwhile, DEFUSE’s proposed delivery partner, PARC, described aerosol technology for biological applications involving “animals/humans.”
DEFUSE is the project submitted the year before the COVID-19 pandemic to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that characterized a pandemic response to a future SARS-CoV-2-like outbreak.
- Why was the government contracting for millions of doses of a plague-vaccine platform while developing automated biological spraying?
- What would be sprayed, and what informed consent protections would exist for potentially exposed people?
You can contact USDA here. (See link for article)
