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Trump says US will help Russia after Siberia plague institute death
Trump said the United States would help Russia as authorities quarantined dozens of people after a lab worker died of an unknown illness.
- 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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Donald Trump promised to help Russia cope with the "flash of plague", which he said in the briefing.
Trump promised to help Russia after the death of an employee of the Institute for the Study of the Plague in Siberia. Tens of people have been quarantined, the circumstances remain undisclosed.
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