Trump to press Putin on reported plague death in Siberia

President Donald Trump said Oct 6 he would speak "very soon" with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the reported plague death of a laboratory technician in Siberia, as Washington pressed Moscow for transparency. Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged Russia to share information so the world "could react accordingly," while the World Health Organization also called for transparent reporting under international health regulations. Russian authorities denied imposing anti-plague measures and said postmortem tests found no disease. Reports from Russian outlet People of Baikal said 28-year-old Darya Shipilova may have contracted pneumonic plague from a broken test tube, with up to 200 contacts quarantined. Officials said the cause was "undetermined," and WHO assessed the risk to Irkutsk as "moderate to low."