US 'watching closely' after plague researcher dies in Russia, Rubio says
"If something like that gets out, it can quickly spread. "Pneumonic plague can transmit from person to person and that is why there is the concern around this," he said. He added: "But of course people's thought with any outbreak of infectious disease at all runs to... lockdowns and Covid and that is just not what's going to happen here.""People think, 'Oh the plague, that's gone, that went hundreds of years ago,' but it hasn't," Clarke said.
- ▪"If something like that gets out, it can quickly spread.
- ▪"Pneumonic plague can transmit from person to person and that is why there is the concern around this," he said.
- ▪He added: "But of course people's thought with any outbreak of infectious disease at all runs to... lockdowns and Covid and that is just not what's going to happen here.""People think, 'Oh the plague, that's gone, that went hundreds of year
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US 'watching closely' after plague researcher dies in Russia, Rubio says<div class="ssrcss-1553su4-ErrorMessage eitf6465"><div class="ssrcss-h7lv7m-StyledInnerContainer eitf6464"><div class="ssrcss-nbxsk2-TextContent eitf6461"><h2 type="normal" class="ssrcss-89o2pv-Heading e10rt3ze0">To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.</h2><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10">This video can not be played</p></div></div></div>Figure caption, Watch: US "monitoring" suspected Siberia plague closely, says Marco RubioByPatrick JacksonPublished8 minutes agoThe US says it is closely monitoring the case of a Russian lab technician who died at a plague research centre in Siberia.Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there was concern the incident could have led to the spread of…
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