US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia

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The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has said the US is closely monitoring the case of a Russian laboratory worker who died last week after a reported accident at a plague research institute in Siberia. “We’re watching and monitoring it closely,” Rubio said on Monday before leaving for a trip to Europe. “I ⁠don’t think it’s cause for alarm, but it is cause for focus and a cause just to keep an ⁠eye on it. ”Darya Shipilova, a 28-year-old employee at the anti-plague institute in the city of Irkutsk, became ill at work.

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