White House ‘monitoring’ suspected plague outbreak in Russia after lab worker dead, hundreds quarantined
The White House is assessing options after a Russian laboratory technician died from pneumonic plague, prompting monitoring of roughly 200 contacts, quarantines at three hospitals, a mask mandate and growing questions about Moscow’s explanation.

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White House ‘monitoring’ suspected plague outbreak in Russia after lab worker dead, hundreds quarantined
White House Assesses Options as Deadly Plague Outbreak Triggers Russian Quarantines [WATCH]
White House on high alert and ‘assessing options’ as plague breaks out in Russia with hundreds put into quarantine
CLG: White House on high alert and ‘assessing options’ as airborne plague breaks out in Russia with hundreds put into quarantine