Lab worker death: Is Russia 'weaponising the plague'?
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How worried should we be about news of a potential outbreak of the medieval pneumonic plague? 00:55 Dr Malik Gibani, Clinical Associate Professor in Bacterial Vaccinology at ICL. 02:19 Marco Rubio, United States Secretary of State. 02:54 Dr Simon Clarke, Associate Professor in Cellular Microbiology at the University of Reading. 03:53 Donald Trump, President of the United States. 04:30 Professor Natasha Lindstaedt, Professor of Government at the University of Essex who specialises in authoritarian states. US officials are monitoring a plague outbreak in Russia which has claimed the life of a lab technician. Hundreds of people have been placed into quarantine after Darya Shipilova, 28, was exposed to pneumonic plague after breaking a test tube. The White House said that the US administration is ‘monitoring the outbreak and assessing options.’ According to Russian media, Ms Shipilova told medical staff she had accidentally broken a test tube holding live bacteria. She became unwell
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