White House says it’s monitoring reports of plague in Russia, ‘assessing options’

Source: Axios

A White House official told Axios that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is aware of a suspected plague outbreak in the Irkutsk region.

The administration is monitoring the situation and “assessing options,” the official said.

An employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died at a hospital in the town of Shelekhov, in the Irkutsk region. According to reports that have not been officially confirmed, she had pneumonic plague. Rospotrebnadzor claims she had “pneumonia of unknown origin.” Several hospitals in Irkutsk have imposed a three-week quarantine. A healthcare source for People of Baikal said doctors in Irkutsk “are already openly talking about plague,” though the diagnosis does not appear in official documents.

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