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Oct 15, 2026
Steve GruberHOST
Play professor for us.
Steve GruberHOST
What is pneumonic plague?
James ThorpeGUEST
Pne- pneumonic plague, or the Black Death, also known as bubonic plague, uh, killed, oh, 20 to 50 million people in the mid-14th century.
James ThorpeGUEST
It's a gram-negative zoonotic bacteria It is, uh, transmitted, carried by fleas on rats or rodents, um, and transmitted to humans by a flea bite or an animal bite that's infected.
James ThorpeGUEST
And then it can rapidly progress to one of three forms, uh, all of, three of which are, are lethal.
Tara SladeHOST
Yeah.
Tara SladeHOST
How worried should we be about the pneumonic plague?
Laurel KayHOST
[laughs] Okay, so-
Tara SladeHOST
I feel like it needs a dun, dun, dun.
Laurel KayHOST
[tense music playing][suspenseful music] So there was recently a researcher, a female researcher in Siberia, Russia, somewhere like that-
Tara SladeHOST
Yeah
Laurel KayHOST
... 28-year-old who was working actually at a plague research facility and mysteriously died from what is purported by several news sources to be the pneumonic plague.
Laurel KayHOST
I haven't seen...
TopherHOST
I think it's great.
TopherHOST
So what about this Russian lab leak, everybody? Are we looking at COVID 2.0? Pneumonic plague.
TopherHOST
What? I'm so done with these fucking diseases, dude.
TopherHOST
I don't care.
TopherHOST
I think we're more than 10 minutes in now.
TopherHOST
What the hell is going on, everybody? What's up with this? Pneumonic plague.
TopherHOST
Now, okay, yes, this could be very bad, but here's a couple things that I've been listening to a lot of educated doctors on and other people that are in disease control and understand viruses that were probably just made up anyways, but...
TopherHOST
Here's the thing.
John CatsimatidisHOST
On the Red Apple Podcast Network
Rita CosbyHOST
And everybody's still talking about the pneumonic plague in Russia.
Rita CosbyHOST
So what's the latest? Let's go to Dr.
Rita CosbyHOST
Marc Siegel.
Jade HindmonHOST
Um, last week it, it was reported a Russian woman died from pneumonia.
Jade HindmonHOST
She worked at a lab that, um, did research with infectious diseases like the pneumoni- pneumonic plague.
Jade HindmonHOST
W- what do we know about that case, and, and what is pneumonic plague, and how concerning would an outbreak of that be?
Francesca TorrianiGUEST
be?Not concerning.
Francesca TorrianiGUEST
Um, [laughs] so this was- and, and there was a lot of hype-
Jessica StahlHOST
However, notably missing from the report is a confirmed diagnosis in the deceased lab worker.
Jessica StahlHOST
So what is going on? What is this lab? Why are people talking about pneumonic plague or Yersinia pestis? What is the history of this region and plague in this region? You may have heard of bubonic plague, but you might be wondering, are there pneumonic plague outbreaks and are they in this region? These are all great questions and I will be answering all of them in detail.
Jessica StahlHOST
I will also be discussing my thought process when this news originally broke, whether I was or am worried, and what I think this situation actually tells us about the next big epidemic and how AI is going to interweave into that situation.
Jessica StahlHOST
So let's just jump right in.
Jessica StahlHOST
I had to jump on here and cover it.
Jessica StahlHOST
I've kind of divided this episode into three main parts.
Jessica StahlHOST
Part number one, what is Yersinia pestis? What is pneumonic plague? We will be covering the microbiology, the clinical presentation, fatality rate with and without antibiotics, some history in the past and modern day epidemiology behind this bacterium.
Jessica StahlHOST
Part two, we'll be covering the news that is coming out of Siberia.
Donald TrumpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The
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Press What is the U.S. going to do about the risk of pneumonic plague coming from Russia? The President
Donald TrumpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, we're looking at it very strongly.
Donald TrumpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We just heard about it.
David PakmanHOST
Oh, boy
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What is the US going to do about the risk of pneumonic plague coming from Russia?
Donald TrumpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, we're looking at it very strongly.
Donald TrumpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We've just heard about it.
Donald TrumpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
... help them.
David PakmanHOST
Um, Trump of course totally mis- He's already misunderstanding what we're talking about.
David PakmanHOST
He goes, "You know, it's pneumonia." Well, it's pneumonic plague.
David PakmanHOST
It's plague in the lungs, and the microbes getting stronger is not exactly the issue.
Parallel MikeHOST
...
Parallel MikeHOST
October the 1st, the CDC jumped in and they published fatal pneumonic plague report, and then four days later, you had this Siberian plague story.
Parallel MikeHOST
Now, that just seems a little bit too [laughs] much of a coincidence for me.
Parallel MikeHOST
Uh, we could go back further as well.
Parallel MikeHOST
If you go back to 2024, the CDC published a plague bioterrorism event guide, and it explicitly stated that pneumonic plague would be the most likely manifestation following an international resese- release of Yersinia pestis, which is the-
Monica PerezHOST
And it is pneumonic, not bubonic.
Parallel MikeHOST
Yeah.
10 MINS LATER
Hrvoje MoricHOST
I forgot to mention, you mentioned antibiotic and, and burning brear- beard.
Tyler WoodHOST
And they are telling us that now there are over 200 people that are being quarantined in Russia because of this event.
Tyler WoodHOST
And they are calling this the pneumonic plague.
Tyler WoodHOST
And as I looked further into this, I noticed something very strange that was happening with this because the director of this very bio lab where this has taken place in Siberia was was recently, a month ago, involved in an exercise or a simulation in China, which was called a cross-border joint emergency exercise that was held to strengthen emergency preparedness for unexpected events and cross-border infectious disease risks such as the plague and tuberculosis.
Tyler WoodHOST
Now, you have to understand that this is the same lab that we're seeing talked about all over the news media.
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