Trump to speak to Putin about plague lab worker's death in Russia
Summary
President Donald Trump said he will soon talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the death of a lab worker at a plague research center in Siberia. Russian officials are investigating the cause of death, and the World Health Organization has asked Russia to share complete and clear information.Key Facts
- A 28-year-old lab worker died at the Anti-Plague Institute in Irkutsk, Siberia.
- Russian investigators have not confirmed if the cause was pneumonic plague, a serious lung infection.
- People who had contact with the worker tested negative for the disease so far.
- The lab worker may have become sick after breaking a test tube or visiting an area with wild rodents carrying the plague bacteria.
- Russia’s health agency said the death was due to pneumonia of unknown cause.
- Around 200 people in the region were put under observation following the death.
- Pneumonic plague spreads through flea bites, contact with fluids, or breathing in infected droplets and can be deadly if untreated.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US has ways to help Russia if the situation is more serious than reported.
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