Plague and Biosecurity: From Black Death to the Siberian Lab Case

This timeline would trace plague from its ancient pandemics and persistent natural reservoirs in Siberia and Central Asia to the Soviet bioweapons program, modern lab-acquired infections, and global surveillance. The suspected 2026 death of a Russian lab worker in Siberia, with US monitoring, becomes the latest node in a longer story about outbreak detection, laboratory safety, and geopolitical disease monitoring. This timeline was generated automatically by TimeStrands AI from Wikipedia research. Facts are sourced; framing may be imperfect.