1065. Andy & DJ CTI: White House Monitoring "Plague Outbreak" In Russia, Teen Hand Blown Off & $100K Benefits for Illegal Families

Headline One: COVID 2.0's here.

Oh, really?

Oh, it's here.

Uh, White House monitoring suspected plague outbreak in Russia after lab worker dead, hundreds quarantined.

Yeah.

This is, uh, this is interesting.

Let's dive into this a little bit.

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

Daria Shapoval, a 28-year-old researcher at an anti-plague research institute in Russia's eastern, uh, how do you pronounce that, Mada- Ikust region, sure, uh, reportedly died after breaking a test tube containing the plague pathogen.

Although Russian officials have refused to say whether or not she contracted the disease.

Uh, the Trump administration is aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options.

A lot of unknown here, but the genesis is reports in Russia of a worker dying at a Russian plague research center after Russian health officials said an employee there was diagnosed with pneumonia from an unknown cause.

The US State Department is now weighing in, saying, quote, "We are aware of reports of a fatal case of suspected pneumonic plague in Russia and are monitoring the situation closely with the CDC and our other inter-agency partners." End quote.

Russian regional officials are taking anti-epidemic measures, and the Russian agency that handles infectious diseases now denies reports there was any accident at the institute and that no other infections have been detected.

At least three hospitals have confirmed to ABC News they are under quarantine, and the State Department said, quote, "Many details have not been confirmed.

We encourage Russian authorities to share accurate information quickly and openly," George.

Yeah.

Yeah, so there's Daria, right? Um, she's apparently been working there for quite some time.

Uh, Marco Rubio, again, they said State Department chimed in on this.

That was pretty much the extent of what he said.

Now, for any of those people out there-

So she broke a test tube of new- pneumonic plague-

Uh-huh

... and died of pneumonia.

Right.

Headline One: COVID 2.0's here.

Oh, really?

Oh, it's here.

Uh, White House monitoring suspected plague outbreak in Russia after lab worker dead, hundreds quarantined.

Yeah.

This is, uh, this is interesting.

Let's dive into this a little bit.

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

Daria Shapoval, a 28-year-old researcher at an anti-plague research institute in Russia's eastern, uh, how do you pronounce that, Mada- Ikust region, sure, uh, reportedly died after breaking a test tube containing the plague pathogen.

Although Russian officials have refused to say whether or not she contracted the disease.

Uh, the Trump administration is aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options.

A lot of unknown here, but the genesis is reports in Russia of a worker dying at a Russian plague research center after Russian health officials said an employee there was diagnosed with pneumonia from an unknown cause.

The US State Department is now weighing in, saying, quote, "We are aware of reports of a fatal case of suspected pneumonic plague in Russia and are monitoring the situation closely with the CDC and our other inter-agency partners." End quote.

Russian regional officials are taking anti-epidemic measures, and the Russian agency that handles infectious diseases now denies reports there was any accident at the institute and that no other infections have been detected.

At least three hospitals have confirmed to ABC News they are under quarantine, and the State Department said, quote, "Many details have not been confirmed.

We encourage Russian authorities to share accurate information quickly and openly," George.

Yeah.

Yeah, so there's Daria, right? Um, she's apparently been working there for quite some time.

Uh, Marco Rubio, again, they said State Department chimed in on this.

That was pretty much the extent of what he said.

Now, for any of those people out there-

So she broke a test tube of new- pneumonic plague-

Uh-huh

... and died of pneumonia.

Right.