October 10, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Giordano has financial ties to organizations that have received AHI contracts, and he heads a federally-funded think tank, the Institute for Biodefense Research. Financial disclosures should be made with any comments from him, if any deeper ties exist.
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October 12, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Giordano has financial ties to organizations that have received AHI contracts, and he heads a federally-funded think tank, the Institute for Biodefense Research. Financial disclosures should be made with any comments from him, if any deeper ties exist.
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Plague at a biodefense site, and suddenly Moscow wants to talk transparency. Funny how this government turns chatty when its own lab staff start dying, having buried Litvinenko and Skripal.
WHO seeks details from Russia on media reports of a second lab worker with pneumonia reut.rs/4y2FpOJ
WHO seeks details from Russia on media reports of a second lab worker with pneumonia
The World Health Organization said it had requested information from Russian authorities on media reports of a second laboratory employee with pneumonia of undetermined cause.
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October 7, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Plague at a biodefense site, and suddenly Moscow wants to talk transparency. Funny how this government turns chatty when its own lab staff start dying, having buried Litvinenko and Skripal.
Coller argues we need a permanent federal biodefense program because "there is no market for a pathogen that does not exist yet...The government must build out the infrastructure and protocols that enable the biosecurity community to develop countermeasures..."
October 12, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Coller argues we need a permanent federal biodefense program because "there is no market for a pathogen that does not exist yet...The government must build out the infrastructure and protocols that enable the biosecurity community to develop countermeasures..."
NIH now says biodefense is outside its mission and is routing countermeasure funds through DoD. Moving the money does not move NIAID's civilian, public-facing orientation with it which DoD might not have. That is the gap to watch. Quoted in The Scientist: www.the-scientist.com/niaid-moves-...
NIAID Moves Away from Biodefense; Experts are Worried. | The Scientist
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’s strategic plan for 2026–2030 also omitted emerging infectious diseases and pandemic preparedness.
www.the-scientist.com
October 7, 2026 at 11:30 AM
NIH now says biodefense is outside its mission and is routing countermeasure funds through DoD. Moving the money does not move NIAID's civilian, public-facing orientation with it which DoD might not have. That is the gap to watch. Quoted in The Scientist: www.the-scientist.com/niaid-moves-...
Stonewalling is the tell. A plague-adjacent death at a biodefense site, and Moscow suddenly goes mute? Opacity isnt a lapse there, its the whole business model.
October 7, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Stonewalling is the tell. A plague-adjacent death at a biodefense site, and Moscow suddenly goes mute? Opacity isnt a lapse there, its the whole business model.
I forgot about that. Ha ha ha (nervous)
But they couldn’t be stupid enough to fire all the people who know all the stuff about bioweapons, right??? Right???
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
But they couldn’t be stupid enough to fire all the people who know all the stuff about bioweapons, right??? Right???
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Hundreds of CDC layoffs reversed, but biodefense preparedness staff hit
More than half of the roughly 1,300 CDC layoff notices have been rescinded, but workers at health agencies who work on biodefense and mental health still lost their jobs.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 6, 2026 at 8:34 PM
I forgot about that. Ha ha ha (nervous)
But they couldn’t be stupid enough to fire all the people who know all the stuff about bioweapons, right??? Right???
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
But they couldn’t be stupid enough to fire all the people who know all the stuff about bioweapons, right??? Right???
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Some additional context. Flagstaff features CDC-regulated, high-containment BSL-3 labs studying dangerous pathogens, historical microbes, and biodefense-related agents.
A resident of Coconino County, Arizona, died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in the county in almost two decades, officials announced on Friday.
Arizona Resident Dies From Plague, Officials Say
The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.
trib.al
October 8, 2026 at 6:34 AM
Some additional context. Flagstaff features CDC-regulated, high-containment BSL-3 labs studying dangerous pathogens, historical microbes, and biodefense-related agents.
RFKJr cutting checks to a Siberian biolab is the tell. Same admin gutting US biodefense oversight while smiling at Moscow. Taxpayer dollars into the exact program we sanction. Not a bingo card, a pattern.
October 8, 2026 at 4:40 PM
RFKJr cutting checks to a Siberian biolab is the tell. Same admin gutting US biodefense oversight while smiling at Moscow. Taxpayer dollars into the exact program we sanction. Not a bingo card, a pattern.
The Scientist: NIAID Moves Away from Biodefense; Experts are Worried
by Shelby Bradford
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by Shelby Bradford
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NIAID Moves Away from Biodefense; Experts are Worried. | The Scientist
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’s strategic plan for 2026–2030 also omitted emerging infectious diseases and pandemic preparedness.
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October 7, 2026 at 1:18 PM
The Scientist: NIAID Moves Away from Biodefense; Experts are Worried
by Shelby Bradford
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by Shelby Bradford
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In 2018, the National Security Council's dedicated Global Health Security and Biodefense unit, created specifically to coordinate federal and international responses to pandemic threats, was disbanded.
October 6, 2026 at 4:37 PM
In 2018, the National Security Council's dedicated Global Health Security and Biodefense unit, created specifically to coordinate federal and international responses to pandemic threats, was disbanded.
Pandora Report 10.09.2026
This issue examines unanswered questions surrounding a Russian plague lab researcher’s death, persistent gaps in U.S. biodefense preparedness, and new research challenging assumptions about H5N1’s ability to infect humans.
pandorareport.org
This issue examines unanswered questions surrounding a Russian plague lab researcher’s death, persistent gaps in U.S. biodefense preparedness, and new research challenging assumptions about H5N1’s ability to infect humans.
pandorareport.org
The Pandora Report
Where Science Meets Security
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October 9, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Pandora Report 10.09.2026
This issue examines unanswered questions surrounding a Russian plague lab researcher’s death, persistent gaps in U.S. biodefense preparedness, and new research challenging assumptions about H5N1’s ability to infect humans.
pandorareport.org
This issue examines unanswered questions surrounding a Russian plague lab researcher’s death, persistent gaps in U.S. biodefense preparedness, and new research challenging assumptions about H5N1’s ability to infect humans.
pandorareport.org
Retired Major Gen Paul Friedrichs served as the Senior Director for Global Health Security & Biodefense on the NSC during Trump's first term, & in Aug 2023, President Joe Biden appointed him as the inaugural director of the newly created WH Office of Pandemic Preparedness & Response Policy.
October 8, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Retired Major Gen Paul Friedrichs served as the Senior Director for Global Health Security & Biodefense on the NSC during Trump's first term, & in Aug 2023, President Joe Biden appointed him as the inaugural director of the newly created WH Office of Pandemic Preparedness & Response Policy.
The country’s anti-plague institutes have played an important role in preventing outbreaks and also have a history of supporting Soviet bioweapons programs, a biodefense expert says.
Russia says lab worker didn’t die of plague. WHO, U.S. experts want to know what killed her.
The country’s anti-plague institutes have played an important role in preventing outbreaks and also have a history of supporting Soviet bioweapons programs, a biodefense expert says.
bit.ly
October 11, 2026 at 11:00 PM
The country’s anti-plague institutes have played an important role in preventing outbreaks and also have a history of supporting Soviet bioweapons programs, a biodefense expert says.
Clinton's entire biodefense program was inspired by *The Cobra Event* and the top of his administration spent years trying to stop a phantom problem that didn't exist (bioterrorism). These are not smart people.
October 7, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Clinton's entire biodefense program was inspired by *The Cobra Event* and the top of his administration spent years trying to stop a phantom problem that didn't exist (bioterrorism). These are not smart people.
Not if its enhanced with AMR genes, and genes for vaccine evasion, genes to make it more virulent, genes to adhere it to surfaces, to resist UV radiation and genes to resist chemical cleaners. You know the soviet bio weapons program turned in to the Russian #biodefense program.
October 6, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Not if its enhanced with AMR genes, and genes for vaccine evasion, genes to make it more virulent, genes to adhere it to surfaces, to resist UV radiation and genes to resist chemical cleaners. You know the soviet bio weapons program turned in to the Russian #biodefense program.
A plague tech dies at a biodefense site and Moscow goes mute. Opacity isnt a glitch in that system, its the product. Send inspectors or assume the worst.
October 7, 2026 at 11:21 AM
A plague tech dies at a biodefense site and Moscow goes mute. Opacity isnt a glitch in that system, its the product. Send inspectors or assume the worst.
NIAID Moves Away from Biodefense; Experts are Worried.
->The Scientist | More on "Pandemic preparedness funding under threat" at BigEarthData.ai
->The Scientist | More on "Pandemic preparedness funding under threat" at BigEarthData.ai
NIAID Moves Away from Biodefense; Experts are Worried.
When the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) released its strategic plan for the next five years (2026–2030), researchers and health policy experts noticed that it did not include research related to pandemic preparedness, emerging infectious disease, or biodefense. This came after the then-director of NIAID, Jeffery Taubenberger, and the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Jayanta Bhattacharya, and John Powers, now the acting NIAID director, published a comment in Nature in January 2026 about redirecting the focus of the agency. In response to whether the NIAID will no longer fund research related to pandemic preparedness or biodefense, the press team said, “Dr. Bhattacharya has worked hard to get biodefense out of NIH’s portfolio, as it is not within NIH’s mission.” Gregg Gonsalves, an epidemiologist at Yale University and who was not involved in the plan, disagreed with this assessment. While many agencies across the federal government fund work related to biodefense—which includes pandemic preparedness and emerging infectious disease—the NIH has been the largest supporter of this work. “So, the idea that it doesn't belong in NIAID is like, tell that to the last 75 years of biomedical research and innovation in the United States,” he...
www.the-scientist.com
October 7, 2026 at 5:13 AM
⏩Biopreparat created other Y. pestis chimeras, including one using Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis that would kill victims treated with antibiotics within about a week.
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a740...
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www.popularmechanics.com/science/a740...
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A Russian Lab Worker Is Dead After a Possible Plague Exposure. We Should Be Terrified of What May Happen Next.
The case raises chilling questions about engineered pathogens and biodefense secrecy.
www.popularmechanics.com
October 7, 2026 at 7:40 AM
⏩Biopreparat created other Y. pestis chimeras, including one using Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis that would kill victims treated with antibiotics within about a week.
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a740...
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Liam Nissan™
@theliamnissan.bsky.social
A plague that can kill you in 24 hours is rapidly spreading in #Russia right now but don't worry folks, Donald #Trump eliminated the Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, and Elon #Musk defunded the CDC.
@theliamnissan.bsky.social
A plague that can kill you in 24 hours is rapidly spreading in #Russia right now but don't worry folks, Donald #Trump eliminated the Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, and Elon #Musk defunded the CDC.
October 4, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Liam Nissan™
@theliamnissan.bsky.social
A plague that can kill you in 24 hours is rapidly spreading in #Russia right now but don't worry folks, Donald #Trump eliminated the Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, and Elon #Musk defunded the CDC.
@theliamnissan.bsky.social
A plague that can kill you in 24 hours is rapidly spreading in #Russia right now but don't worry folks, Donald #Trump eliminated the Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, and Elon #Musk defunded the CDC.
The country’s anti-plague institutes have played an important role in preventing outbreaks and also have a history of supporting Soviet bioweapons programs, a biodefense expert says.
Russia says lab worker didn’t die of plague. WHO, U.S. experts want to know what killed her.
The country’s anti-plague institutes have played an important role in preventing outbreaks and also have a history of supporting Soviet bioweapons programs, a biodefense expert says.
bit.ly
October 9, 2026 at 11:00 AM
The country’s anti-plague institutes have played an important role in preventing outbreaks and also have a history of supporting Soviet bioweapons programs, a biodefense expert says.