U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is demanding Moscow provide all the details on Darya Shipilova's death. Background: ...

Nearly six years after the COVID outbreak, there are fears of another health emergency after reports of the death of a ...

The death of a Russian lab technician researching the plague has set off alarms abroad and at home as observers note resemblances to the conditions that some theorized preceded the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rospotrebnadzor, Russia’s health watchdog said that Shipilova died from “pneumonia of unknown aetiology” but unconfirmed ...

Background: 28-year-old Shipilova, Russia's latest patient zero, worked in the "Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East." Check the map. Irkutsk appears to be a long way ...

Hidden files have exposed how the Soviet Union spent decades covering up its building building and stockpiling of biological ...

Subscribe to our WhatsApp Channel Memories of COVID-19 had barely faded when news from Russia’s Siberian region shocked the ...

A fire breaks out at a laboratory in Siberia where secretive research into infectious diseases is taking place. A technician, racked with guilt over the accident, disappears into the tundra and ...

The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East was set up in 1934 to control plague outbreaks. Its founding scientist helped quell outbreaks in Siberia, Mo ...

Russian authorities insist that the incident in Irkutsk, Siberia, has been contained, with 200 people thought to have been ...

A laboratory worker at a plague research institute in Siberia fell ill and died in undisclosed circumstances on October 2, prompting authorities to initially quarantine about 200 people and causing ...