️🇺🇸🇷🇺Axios: The White House is following up on reports of a suspected plague case in the Irkutsk region of Russia after a 28-year-old woman who worked at an epidemic research facility died.

️🇺🇸🇷🇺Axios: The White House is following up on reports of a suspected plague case in the Irkutsk region of Russia after a 28-year-old woman who worked at an epidemic research facility died.

Russian health authorities have not confirmed that she contracted the epidemic, saying she had pneumonia of unknown cause and that tests found no microorganisms related to her work. The almost 200 people who were in contact with her were put under surveillance.