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Plague risks in Russia and a dangerous delay on WHO pandemic agreement | Letters

Responding to an editorial on a potential plague outbreak, Dr Darren Mann deplores delays to the agreement, while Kent Buse says Britain could do more Your editorial on the silence from Siberia after a worker died at a…

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated October 25, 2026, 5:13 PM UTC
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  • Responding to an editorial on a potential plague outbreak, Dr Darren Mann deplores delays to the agreement, while Kent Buse says Britain could do more Your editorial on the…
  • It is that, six years after Covid, we still have no agreed system for sharing pathogens, or for sharing what is made from them.
  • But the deeper failure is not Russian.

Responding to an editorial on a potential plague outbreak, Dr Darren Mann deplores delays to the agreement, while Kent Buse says Britain could do more Your editorial on the silence from Siberia after a worker died at a plague research institute there is right that the lack of information is the real worry ( The Guardian view on plague in Russia: what is most worrying is the lack of information, 18 October ).

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