Is the plague back?

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Are we all going to get the plague? Why did Tennessee’s execution of Christa Pike “fail”? Unethical hep B research from RFK Jr continues. Measles update.

Note: Reactions to the president’s calls for attacking LA and SD (and his speech on Monday) are here

Plague

Initial reports about person who died in Russia
What Russia says about the person who died
What was known as of 10/6/2026
Dr. Angela Rasmussen’s overview of the situation
Why Annie Jacobsen may not be the best source on this
2015 article Inside America’s secretive biolabs
2025 editorial On the Controversies Surrounding the Lab-Leak Theory of COVID-19

“Failed” Execution of Christa Pike

Christa Pike, Child Rape Victim, Faces Execution for Crime She Committed as a Teenager
American Board of Anesthesiologists prohibits anesthesiologists from participating in state-sanctioned killing
Tennessee’s Medical Ethics Defense Act
Will physicians invoke the Medical Ethics Defense Act to prevent state-sanctioned killing?
Trump approved the military's 1st firing squad execution since WWII
Exonerated Play (2000), TV film (2005)

Other updates:

5th measles death
Update on unethical Guinea-Bissau study
Hegseth’s humiliation kink
FBI denies investigation into Nolan Wells’s death
Nolan Wells autopsy
Pathological findings in drowning
“When Anesthesia Goes Wrong” Atlantic article on mitochondrial condition

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Raha Akhavan becomes first Iranian woman to achieve open swimming Triple Crown
Poems: “Failed ChatGPT” - Kate Baer
Present for Arghavan: Persepolis pin

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00:00:16Welcome to The Present Illness

00:10:20The Plague Outbreak in Siberia?

00:24:25Christa Pike and “Lethal” Injection

00:35:30Ethical Dilemmas in Medical Practice

00:37:41Incarcerated Patients and Medical Decision Making

00:40:16Medical Ethics and Executions

00:41:34Trump brings back firing squad

00:45:14The Impact of Race and Class on Justice

00:47:41The Case of Krista Pike and Systemic Issues

00:48:59Measles Update

00:50:38Unethical research moving forward

00:51:37Nolan Wells update

00:53:45Anesthesia, mitochondrial condition, and Venezuela

00:56:15Take Two and Call Me in the Morning

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But it's a little perplexing to understand why 200 people were quarantined if they did not think that this had anything to do with the lab that she Hey there, fellow nerds. Welcome back to another episode of The Present Illness, a podcast where two physicians try to make sense of a world that's~ a little febrile. And this week we're gonna talk about the plague.
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So just so super fitting. ~ and and definitely under a diagnose.
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