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On March 30, 1979, at the end of his shift, a technician at a military facility in Sverdlovsk, the city now called Yekaterinburg, left a handwritten note on his boss's desk: the filter was clogged, had been dismantled, and required replacement.

The note was not read in time.

For several hours, the laboratory's centrifuges continued to operate without proper protection. A fine cloud of anthrax spores, type 836, part of the secret Soviet biological weapons program Biopreparat, spread into the air from the laboratory.

Three days later, workers at a nearby ceramics factory began to fall ill. Cases continued to rise until May 19. According to official figures, 66 people died. Ken Alibek, one of the leaders of the Biopreparat program, who later fled to the United States, said the death toll was at least 105. Other estimates put the death toll at hundreds.

At the time, Soviet authorities denied that the epidemic was linked to the laboratory.

Initially, theories spread that it was a common disease. Later, the Soviet state news agency Tass claimed that the cause was spoiled meat that had been sold illegally. Several vendors were arrested and other measures were taken to support this theory.

But doubts began to arise in the West.

American analysts studied the symptoms and concluded that it was pulmonary anthrax and that spoiled meat did not explain the epidemic.

For years, Moscow continued to deny any connection to the laboratory.

Only in the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, were parts of the truth acknowledged. Boris Yeltsin, who in 1979 was the head of the Communist Party in Sverdlovsk, admitted that the deaths were linked to the military laboratory. The Biopreparat program was declared closed, although some Western experts have continued to suspect that Russian military biological activities have not completely disappeared.

It is precisely this story that makes a new case in Siberia more sensitive.

In 2026, a few days after the death of Daria Shipilova, a scientist working in a laboratory near Irkutsk, Russian authorities have yet to provide a full explanation for the cause of death. Officially, pneumonia has been cited and the death has been denied to be related to the laboratory.

Meanwhile, questions have been raised about a second suspected case, although this information has not been confirmed. The World Health Organization has requested more information from Russia, while European authorities have said that the information available is very limited.

Moscow has resisted requests for clarification. Even when Donald Trump offered help, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded that Russia could be the one to help the United States in the fight against epidemics.

However, the White House has sought clarification and Trump has announced that he will speak to Vladimir Putin about the matter. He has said that he does not believe the outbreak is related to a biological weapon, but that this will be clarified.

The big difference from 1979 is that information is now disseminated immediately, and there are international rules requiring countries to notify the WHO of potential health risks. But these rules have practical limitations: if a country does not allow access and verification of data, international organizations have little chance of checking for themselves what is happening inside a laboratory.

Therefore, today's case does not mean that we are facing a military biological incident. So far, there is no public evidence linking Shipilova's death or the plague cases to a biological weapons program.

But the story of Sverdlovsk shows why transparency is so important.

In 1979, Soviet authorities long denied what was later admitted: that an incident at a military laboratory had caused human deaths.

Today, in Siberia, we have a dead scientist, an official explanation that has not been independently verified, and very little information available.

This is not evidence of a repetition of Sverdlovsk history, but it is reason enough for the questions to demand clear answers.


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