E310 - Russia’s Plague Mystery: Why U.S. Officials Want Answers
Published: October 7, 2026
Duration: 10:25
A Russian laboratory worker is dead.
Hospitals have been quarantined.
Contacts have been monitored.
And U.S. officials are asking Moscow for more information.
But what actually happened remains uncertain.
In Episode 310 of The Secret War on Cash, Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos of Swiss America Trading examine the developing mystery surrounding the death of a 28-year-old worker at the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East.
The worker died after being diagnosed with pneumonia of unknown origin.
The institute she worked for studies plague as well as other dangerous...
Hospitals have been quarantined.
Contacts have been monitored.
And U.S. officials are asking Moscow for more information.
But what actually happened remains uncertain.
In Episode 310 of The Secret War on Cash, Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos of Swiss America Trading examine the developing mystery surrounding the death of a 28-year-old worker at the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East.
The worker died after being diagnosed with pneumonia of unknown origin.
The institute she worked for studies plague as well as other dangerous...