WH Monitors Suspected Plague Outbreak in Russia

"The greater issue is 'what if?'" Fisher said. "If we have a lack of transparency, we don't exactly know the ramifications."

Speculation has surrounded the death of Daria Shipilova, who worked in a plague research center in Irkutsk.

The Trump administration is monitoring a suspected case of the plague in Russia, the State Department told The Hill’s sister network NewsNation. “We are aware of ​reports of a fatal case of suspected pneumonic plague in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia.

The White House is “aware” of a suspected plague outbreak in Russia and is “monitoring the situation” after a young lab worker was killed and some 200 others reportedly forced into quarantine, an official said.