Moscow, Oct 5, 2026 (AFP) - Russia downplays plague reports as Trump offers US help

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2026-10-05

Russia on Monday sought to downplay reports that a laboratory technician had died of plague, even as President Donald Trump said Washington was closely monitoring the situation and offered US help. Reports on Friday that pneumonic plague had killed a 28-year-old woman named Darya Shipilova, who had been working for the anti-plague institute in Siberia's Irkutsk region, sparked alarm. "We're looking at it very strongly, we just heard about it," Tr......

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