Trump to speak to Putin about plague lab worker's death in Russia
Fears that the death may have been caused by pneumonic plague has prompted calls for more transparency from Russia.
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Fears that the death may have been caused by pneumonic plague has prompted calls for more transparency from Russia.
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would speak โvery soonโ with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the reported plague death of a laboratory technician, as Washington and the World Health Organization pressed Moscow for greater transparency and clarity over conflicting accounts of the incident in Siberia.
The death of a 28-year-old Russian lab worker at Siberiaโs Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute has sparked online panic about a โplagueโ, despite the WHO assessing the public health risk in Russia as low. Unverified claims about how she became ill, including a laboratory accident involving a test tube, are circulating online. Misleading posts and out-of-context videos have also fuelled speculation and fear. Vedika Bahl goes through them, and what we know, in Truth or Fake.
A Russian agency links the lab worker's death to 'pneumonia of unknown' origin.