The United States does not have a vaccine for plague, Annie Jacobsen explains (in Biological War), for reasons that are complicated:
Russia’s vaccine, called Live Plague Vaccine, or LPV, is understood to have been created from an attenuated, or weakened, strain of plague. “For the past almost eight decades of usage,” writes Russian vaccine expert Valentina A. Feodorova, “millions of [Russian] people have been immunized with this LPV.”
Russia has a long history of plague epidemics. The Russian Ministry of Health lists Y. pestis bacteria as an “Extremely Dangerous to Human Populations” pathogen on its version of the CDC’s Tier 1 Select Agent list. Because of this, Russians generally embrace anti-plague-vaccine campaigns. There are “no recorded live vaccine-related deaths or serious post-vaccination complications,” Feodorova adds, which may or may not be true. “Reactions are generally mild and of short duration,” she says.
Plague epidemics tend to occur in remote regions of Siberia, in border areas with Mongolia and China. Large plague outbreaks in Russian cities are uncommon. During the Cold War, there were at least five research institutes dedicated to what Russia calls anti-plague work. As we know from Igor Domaradskij’s writings, many of these institutions performed dual-use biological weapons work.
The United States used to have a plague vaccine, but not anymore. During the Vietnam War, soldiers were given the EV76 Y. pestis vaccine, but some of them got sick and it was discontinued.
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In 1999, the FDA renewed plague vaccine efforts but discontinued use after EV76 caused severe reactions in nonhuman primates. Some of the apes being used as medical test subjects contracted fatal plague and died.
“There’s another great vaccine that’s been in development at USAMRIID for a while,” Dr. Heine tells us; he worked on this program for the army, fifteen years ago. “But this vaccine is lost in bureaucracy and is nowhere near being ready for human trials—that I’m aware of,” he says, a fact that remains largely unknown outside defense medicine circles.
In Virginia, an NRO intelligence officer uploads the images of the Russian truck convoy into the classified JWICS and SIPRNet (Secret Internet Protocol Router Network) for the intelligence community to see, and analyze.
Antibiotics work quite well. Panic only drives voter turnout to increase government power ‘for your safety’.