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曾为苏联生物武器叛逃者向马歇尔·比林斯利透露过同一实验室研制出耐药鼠疫菌株的内情
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发布于2026年10月6日美国东部时间下午2:39
俄罗斯淡化鼠疫暴发恐慌
美国国务卿马可·卢比奥称，特朗普政府正在监控俄罗斯境内可能暴发的鼠疫疫情。此前有报道称，一处实验室装有致命病原体的试管破损，随后一名实验室工作人员因肺炎死亡。
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西伯利亚与远东地区伊尔库茨克抗鼠疫研究所一名研究人员的离奇死亡，让美国前高级军备官员发出警告：这可能比引发黑死病的细菌“更可怕”。
曾担任唐纳德·特朗普总统军备控制特别特使的马歇尔·比林斯利表示，数十年前，一名顶级苏联生物武器叛逃者曾向他透露，在此次涉疫死亡事件发生的同一实验室里，曾秘密开展耐药鼠疫菌株的研究工作。
“这可能不只是‘普通鼠疫’，情况可能比这可怕得多，”比林斯利在X平台上写道。
他在20世纪90年代大部分时间都在参议院外交关系委员会负责防扩散和军备控制议题，在此期间与肯·阿里贝克共事过。阿里贝克是苏联生物武器项目的前二号人物，后来叛逃至美国。
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2026年10月5日，俄罗斯伊尔库茨克州舍列霍夫镇医疗救援中心（一家传染病医院）的画面。(路透社)
“他声称他们曾培育出耐药鼠疫菌株，还研究过鼠疫嵌合体（将两种或多种病原体融合），”比林斯利在谈及阿里贝克时写道。
“他特别指出伊尔库茨克参与了生物武器项目，”他补充道。
比林斯利发出警告之前，西伯利亚与远东地区伊尔库茨克抗鼠疫研究所一名28岁员工于上周因肺炎死亡，俄罗斯当局称该肺炎病因不明。
俄罗斯方面并未表示该女子死于鼠疫，并表示检测未发现其体内存在与其工作相关的微生物。
世界卫生组织（WHO）周二表示，俄罗斯官员告知该机构，在该女子的密切接触者中未检测出鼠疫或其他高威胁病原体，但目前仍在等待确认导致其致命肺炎的具体原因。
国防部科学家意外死亡引发质疑，失踪科学家调查范围扩大
据俄罗斯当局透露，截至目前，已对该女子约60%的已确认接触者进行了检测，其中发现2例新冠病毒感染和2例鼻病毒感染，但未检测到其他传染病病原体。
尽管如此，这家研究危险病原体的机构发生的离奇死亡事件还是引发了生物安全专家的密切关注——包括为何死因至今不明的质疑。
身着防护服的工作人员在俄罗斯开展检测，此前西伯利亚一家抗鼠疫研究所的员工死亡，当地加强了防护措施。(Khuvsguliinungu.mn/e2w)
研究生物安全和大流行病风险的麻省理工学院教授凯文·埃斯韦尔特表示，俄罗斯方面最新的解释表明该研究人员并非死于鼠疫，但未解释真正的致死原因。
“如果我们采信俄罗斯当局的说法，那她就不是死于鼠疫，”埃斯韦尔特周二写道。
“但经过非针对性的科研级测序通常可以可靠地识别病原体，而且人们很少会在没有病原体感染的情况下死于肺炎，更何况是28岁的年轻人，”他补充道，“如果他们不知道死因，那才令人惊讶。”
埃斯韦尔特提醒称，更令人担忧的解释仍只是推测。
“值得警惕的可能性目前还只是一种假设，”他写道。
围绕这起死亡事件的质疑，背景是苏联曾秘密研制包括武器化鼠疫在内的生物武器的有据可查的历史，以及美国的评估：苏联解体后，该项目的部分内容仍在继续。
美国国务院在2025年军备控制合规报告中评估，俄罗斯仍在维持违反《禁止生物武器公约》的进攻性生物战项目，苏联的生物武器项目在苏联解体后“被继承，而非被解散”。
国务院称，该项目在俄罗斯联邦治下“持续存在并不断演变”，莫斯科仍在从事公约禁止的活动。俄罗斯多次否认维持进攻性生物武器项目。
美国的评估并未将俄罗斯的生物武器项目与伊尔库茨克发生的研究人员死亡事件联系起来，目前也没有证实两者存在关联。
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28岁的达莉亚·希皮洛娃是西伯利亚与远东地区伊尔库茨克抗鼠疫研究所的员工，她因不明原因的肺炎死亡，促使该地区启动隔离措施并加强卫生防护。俄罗斯当局表示，检测未发现她的病情与其工作中接触的病原体有关。(East2West新闻)
比林斯利提及的苏联项目是全球规模最大的秘密生物武器行动之一。阿里贝克本名卡纳特让·阿里别科夫，曾升任苏联生物武器项目主要组成部分的名义上的民用网络“生物制备计划”的第一副手，1992年叛逃至美国。
叛逃后，阿里贝克向美国官员提供了关于苏联项目规模和能力的详细信息。他描述苏联科学家曾致力于将包括鼠疫在内的病原体武器化，并开发能够抵御抗生素的菌株。
多年来，他关于苏联项目某些方面的说法一直受到审查，因此独立记录尤为重要。但苏联生物武器行动的存在及其庞大规模——尽管莫斯科在1975年批准了《禁止生物武器公约》仍秘密开展——已是公认的事实。
伊尔库茨克研究所称，其成立于1934年，是防治鼠疫的科研和行动中心。其任务后来扩展到霍乱和炭疽等其他高度危险疾病，如今自称是负责保护该地区免受传染病侵害的研究和防疫机构。
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特朗普政府表示正在密切监控事态发展，并敦促莫斯科就事件真相提高透明度。
美国国务卿马可·卢比奥周一表示，尽管美俄之间的旅行仍然受限，但传染病可能会迅速蔓延至俄罗斯境外。
“如果类似病毒外泄，可能会迅速传播，”卢比奥说。
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唐纳德·特朗普总统表示，如有需要，美国将向俄罗斯提供援助。
“我不愿看到他们遭遇这种情况，”特朗普周一对记者说，“这是一种凶险的疾病。”
Russian researcher’s mystery death could be ‘far worse’ than the plague, former senior Trump official warns
2026-10-06T14:39:14-04:00 / Fox News
A Soviet bioweapons defector told Marshall Billingslea about an antibiotic-resistant plague from the same facility
By Morgan Phillips Fox News
Published October 6, 2026 2:39pm EDT
Russia DOWNPLAYS fears of plague outbreak
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the Trump administration is monitoring a potential plague outbreak in Russia after a laboratory worker reportedly died from pneumonia following reports of a broken test tube containing a deadly pathogen.
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The unexplained death of a researcher at a Russian anti-plague institute has one former senior U.S. arms official warning it could be ‘far worse’ than the bacteria that caused the Black Death.
Marshall Billingslea, who served as President Donald Trump’s special presidential envoy for arms control, said a top Soviet bioweapons defector told him decades ago about secret work on antibiotic-resistant plague at the same facility where the recent plague-related death occurred.
“This may not be just ‘the plague.’ It may be far worse,” Billingslea wrote on X.
He spent much of the 1990s working on proliferation and arms control issues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — and during that time worked with Ken Alibek, the former No. 2 official in the Soviet biological weapons program who defected to the U.S.
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A view of the Medical Assistance and Rescue Centre, an infectious diseases hospital, in the town of Shelekhov in the Irkutsk region, Russia, October 5, 2026.(Reuters)
“He claimed that they had engineered a strain of plague that was antibiotic-resistant & that they had worked on plague chimeras (fusing 2 or more pathogens),” Billingslea wrote of Alibek.
“He specifically called out Irkutsk for being involved in the BW program,” he added.
Billingslea’s warning comes after a 28-year-old employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East died last week from what Russian authorities have described as pneumonia of undetermined origin.
Russia has not said the woman died of plague and said testing found no microorganisms in her body linked to her work.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday that Russian officials told the agency no plague or other high-threat pathogen had been detected among her close contacts, though they are still awaiting confirmation of what caused her fatal pneumonia.
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About 60% of the woman’s identified contacts have been tested so far, according to Russian authorities, with two cases of COVID-19 and two rhinovirus infections detected — but no other infectious disease pathogens.
Still, the unexplained death at a facility that works with dangerous pathogens has drawn scrutiny from biosecurity experts — including questions about why the cause remains unknown.
Workers in protective uniforms conduct testing in Russia amid heightened precautions following the death of an employee at a Siberian anti-plague research institute.(Khuvsguliinungu.mn/e2w)
Kevin Esvelt, an MIT professor who studies biological security and catastrophic pandemic risks, said Russia’s latest explanation suggests the researcher did not die from plague while leaving unanswered what killed her.
“If we take the Russian authorities at their word, it is not plague,” Esvelt wrote Tuesday.
“But untargeted research-grade sequencing reliably identifies pathogens, and people seldom die of pneumonia without pathogens, let alone 28-year-olds,” he added. “It would be surprising if they did not know the cause.”
Esvelt cautioned that more alarming explanations remain hypothetical.
“The concerning possibility is still only a possibility,” he wrote.
The questions surrounding the death come against the backdrop of the Soviet Union’s documented history of secretly developing biological weapons, including weaponized plague, and U.S. assessments that elements of that program continued after the Soviet collapse.
In its 2025 arms control compliance report, the State Department assessed that Russia maintains an offensive biological warfare program in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention and that the Soviet program was “absorbed, not dismantled” after the Soviet collapse.
The department said the program “has continued and evolved” under the Russian Federation and that Moscow continues activities prohibited under the convention. Russia has repeatedly denied maintaining an offensive biological weapons program.
The U.S. assessment does not establish any connection between Russia’s biological weapons program and the researcher’s death in Irkutsk, and no such connection has been confirmed.
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Darya Shipilova, 28, an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East, died after developing pneumonia of an unknown cause, prompting quarantines and heightened health precautions in the region. Russian authorities say testing has found no evidence her illness was linked to pathogens she worked with.(East2West news)
The Soviet program Billingslea referenced was one of the world’s largest clandestine biological weapons efforts. Alibek, born Kanatjan Alibekov, rose to become the first deputy chief of Biopreparat, the ostensibly civilian network that formed a major part of the Soviet biological weapons apparatus, before defecting to the United States in 1992.
After his defection, Alibek provided U.S. officials with extensive information about the scale and capabilities of the Soviet program. He described Soviet scientists working to weaponize pathogens including plague and developing strains designed to withstand antibiotics.
His claims about some aspects of the Soviet program have faced scrutiny over the years, making independent documentation particularly important. But the existence and enormous scale of the Soviet biological weapons effort — conducted despite Moscow’s 1975 ratification of the Biological Weapons Convention — is well established.
The Irkutsk institute says it was founded in 1934 as a scientific and operational center for combating plague. Its mission later expanded to other highly dangerous diseases, including cholera and anthrax, and it describes itself today as a research and anti-epidemic facility responsible for helping protect the region from infectious disease.
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The Trump administration has said it is closely monitoring the situation and pressed Moscow for greater transparency about what happened.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that while travel between the U.S. and Russia remains limited, an infectious disease could quickly spread beyond Russia’s borders.
“If something like that gets out, it could quickly spread,” Rubio said.
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President Donald Trump said the U.S. would offer assistance to Russia if needed.
“I hate to see them having it,” Trump told reporters Monday. “It’s a rough disease.”
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