By Madge Waggy
MadgeWaggy.blogspot.com
October 12, 2026
On the second of October, in a town most people could not place on a map, a young woman died of a pneumonia that nobody could name. Her name was Darya Shipilova, and she was twenty-eight, a laboratory technician in Shelekhov, a small settlement in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, at an institute whose entire reason for existing is the study of plague.