The Irkutsk Plague Institute and Russian Phage Therapy
The Irkutsk Plague Institute and Russian Phage Therapy By Robert Korczynski October 7th 2026 The recent death of 28-year-old laboratory technician Darya Shipilova at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute, and the resulting lockdown of sixty scientists at the Institute alongside the hospital monitoring of two hundred likely family contacts will never be officially explained by the Russians, who are not known for their transparency. If this event was a localized lab leak of an engineered super plague, the Russian Scientists and their family members are certainly being given pneumonic plague bacteriophage therapy. The Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute was explicitly designated for dual-use biological weapons warfare research under the Soviet system, meaning the likely research was with the endemic Pneumonic Plague, creating one or more Multiply Resistant Pneumonic Plague (MRPP) strains from regional wildlife reservoirs like marmots and ground squirrels. Recent revelations from t...