Bad news come in twos in Australia. In October 2026, the government established a five-year partnership linking its research agency CSIRO and jab producer Moderna. Moderna set up an mRNA vaccine" factory in Melbourne in 2021, capable of producing billions of doses on short notice. Industry minister Tim Ayres said developing jabs against "bacterial threats" [like plague] would be among the types of tasks assigned to the new partnership, the CSIRO-Moderna Biosecurity Accelerator.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/labor-boosts-pandemic-defence-as-world-seeks-answers-on-russian-plague-20261007-p613hn
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/labor-boosts-pandemic-defence-as-world-seeks-answers-on-russian-plague-20261007-p613hn
Australian Financial Review
Labor boosts pandemic defence as world seeks answers on Russian plague
Canberra has forged a five-year CSIRO-Moderna alliance to boost biosecurity, as global health officials press Russia over a lab death from pneumonic plague.
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