Trump says US will help Russia after Siberia plague institute death
Trump says the United States is ready to help Russia as health officials monitor the case and quarantine nearly 200 contacts, officials said.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House that the United States will help Russia after a laboratory worker died at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia.
- While local media alleged the 28-year-old lab technician died from pneumonic plague, Russian officials stated postmortem tests found only 'pneumonia of undetermined aetiology' with no evidence of occupational pathogens.
- Authorities placed at least one hospital in Shelekhov under quarantine, with nearly 200 people under medical observation after potential exposure to the worker.
- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the nation is monitoring closely and sees no 'cause for alarm,' while experts like Dr. Malick Gibani of Imperial College London termed the response 'proportionate.'
- Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger called for halting flights from Russia citing biological research concerns, though officials note international travel between the U.S. and Russia remains limited.
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Analysis by Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Ultimately, one wonders what Vladimir Putin tells Donald Trump when they talk on the phone. A week ago, a call between the US president and his Russian counterpart seemed to deal with an urgent clarification regarding a possible outbreak of plague in Siberia.
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The Kremlin spokesman announced that a phone call between the Russian and American presidents will take place soon, and the possibility of Trump's envoys visiting Moscow in October is still a possibility.
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