US urges disclosure of information about accident at Russian plague institute… Some suspect biological weapons, too

Also reported as: Rubio urges Russia to share more information about the possible plague case in Irkutsk; In response to: Pneumonic plague has appeared in Russia

• Confirmed Marco Rubio (🇺🇸) urged Russia to share more information about the suspected accident.¹
  • Confirmed Marco Rubio (🇺🇸) said officials lacked all information needed to assess the incident.¹
  • Confirmed Marco Rubio (🇺🇸) said the United States monitored the situation hourly.¹
• A woman researcher broke a test tube containing plague pathogen at an Irkutsk plague-control research institute (🇷🇺).¹
  • The test-tube incident at the Irkutsk plague-control research institute (🇷🇺) occurred on 25 September.¹
• A female researcher was admitted to hospital with severe pneumonia on 29 September and died between 1 and 2 October.¹
• Local independent media reported about 200 people were designated for quarantine observation at the hospital that received Daria Shipilova.¹

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• US urges disclosure of information about accident at Russian plague institute… Some suspect biological weapons, tookoreatimes.com · Korean · 6 Oct, 01:11