Blogger Comment: For him to be a US President, he is not well informed of what is really going on here and if he believes its Russia, he does not know that Russia is and the No.1 prime target of the Globalists to take over the largest nation in the world by far with its land mass and the vast mineral resources that it has in the ground and that’s what the pseudo-Ukraine war is all about as a “on your marks” starter from 2014 onwards for this unprecedented wealth plunder and Trump is doing their business, but apparently he does not seem to know anything about that simple word and the world of ‘reality’…I wonder why…

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President Donald Trump is “assessing options” as a deadly plague outbreak in Russia triggers hospital lockdowns and sends neighboring nations scrambling to tighten their borders.

A 28-year-old employee at a Russian anti-plague institute has died, nearly 200 possible contacts have been placed under medical observation, and reports of a laboratory exposure have raised urgent questions about what happened.

The Kremlin is telling the public to trust official assurances.

But hospitals have restricted admissions and discharges, public events have been canceled, and warnings about the incident have been posted, then deleted.

The Trump administration “is aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options,” an official told Axios.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that an infection escaping containment could spread quickly.

“There’s very limited travel between the US and Russia, obviously, but like anything else, something like that gets out, it could quickly spread,” Rubio told reporters before departing for Iceland.

“I don’t think it’s cause for alarm, but it is cause for focus and a cause to just keep an eye on it. And we’re doing that.”

Emergency Measures Spread Across Russia’s Borders

Russia’s neighbors are already taking action.

Kyrgyzstan ordered heightened sanitary controls at every border checkpoint.

Its Health Ministry said the precautions were “prompted by reports of a confirmed case of the plague in the Russian Federation.”

Uzbekistan announced measures to prevent highly dangerous infections from entering the country.

Kazakhstan, which shares a 4,750-mile frontier with Russia, said it is monitoring Irkutsk and conducting sanitary-quarantine checks at crossings.

Mongolia is maintaining a high-alert posture along its Russian border.

The emergency precautions follow the death of Daria Shipilova, an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute.

Shipilova was hospitalized with severe pneumonia and died within 48 hours, according to reports.

The Moscow Times initially reported that plague had killed her.

“Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague,” the newspaper reported.

Local officials described a “particularly dangerous infection.”

Russia’s public-health watchdog denies that a plague outbreak has occurred.

Young Lab Worker Dies as Hospitals Lock Down

Shipilova reportedly told medical staff she had broken a test tube containing live bacteria while collecting samples on an expedition near Mongolia.

That account remains disputed, and Russian authorities say investigators found no laboratory accident involving pathogenic microorganisms.

The response to her death, however, has been extensive.

The district hospital where she was treated was quarantined.

Around 200 people who may have had contact with her were placed under medical isolation or observation, including at least 100 in hospital wards.

Reports described up to five hospitals in and around Irkutsk operating in epidemic mode.

Several departments stopped admitting or discharging patients.

A patient at City Clinical Hospital No. 1 said relatives were barred from visiting and nobody was allowed out.

A relative of an institute employee described more than 60 people being sealed inside the facility from Friday, with food parcels passed through a checkpoint.

According to that account, no positive tests had been recorded by Saturday.

Health workers in hazmat suits were photographed in the region, and public events were canceled.

Shelekhovsky district Mayor Maxim Modin said authorities were carrying out a “comprehensive set of anti-epidemic measures.”

Irkutsk Gov. Igor Kobzev urged the public to remain calm.

“All identified contact persons have been placed under medical observation. As of today, the contacts show no signs of illness, and their laboratory test results are negative,” Kobzev wrote on Telegram on Friday.

His statement made no mention of Shipilova’s death.

Experts Challenge Lab Accident Explanation

Specialists are questioning whether the broken-test-tube account explains the fatal infection.

“It’s laughable,” Russian epidemiologist Mikhail Favorov said.

“Someone working at the anti-plague Institute in Irkutsk wears a protective anti-plague suit.

“If you break a test tube, the likelihood of infection is actually very low.

“In short, It doesn’t matter to the general public — they’ll believe the ‘dropped test tube story.’”

Dr. Simon Clarke of the University of Reading also challenged the explanation.

“One claim attracting attention is that a laboratory worker may have been infected after breaking a test tube in the lab,” Clarke said.

Clarke explained why such an incident would raise serious questions about laboratory safeguards.

“It is not unheard of for pathogens to escape from labs, but an awful lot must have gone wrong for a lab worker to be infected by a broken test tube.

“Having worked in high-containment laboratories, I know that handling dangerous pathogens involves multiple layers of protection, strict procedures, safety cabinets, airflow systems and careful procedures carried out by well-trained staff.

“Lab-acquired infections are rare events, and a broken tube would not automatically lead to exposure or infection.

“We also don’t tend to use test tubes very much.

“Until more details emerge, it is difficult to assess whether this represents an isolated case, an occupational exposure, or evidence of wider transmission.”

Russia’s chief sanitary doctor, Anna Popova, flew approximately 2,600 miles from Moscow to Irkutsk to oversee the response.

She has not spoken publicly.

Favorov argued that her involvement indicated a situation significantly worse than the public was being told.

“It’s absolutely hair-raising. We will not be told what really happened,” Favorov told The Moscow Times.

Warnings Vanish as Kremlin Pushes Official Account

The Kremlin has attempted to shut down speculation surrounding the death.

“One should rely on official statements from Rospotrebnadzor rather than listening to various rumors and speculation,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday.

Rospotrebnadzor, Russia’s public-health watchdog, has insisted since Sunday that there is no plague outbreak and that the situation in Irkutsk and Shelekhov is “stable.”

Officials said testing of Shipilova’s samples found no organisms associated with her work.

Meanwhile, local warnings have disappeared.

The administration of Baikalsk posted, then deleted, a Telegram message advising residents not to travel to Shelekhov after receiving “unofficial information about a confirmed case of plague.”

National broadcaster REN TV deleted five social media posts about the scare.

The Irkutsk Aluminum Plant ordered employees to wear masks on October 2 “due to the current situation in our region.”

The requirement was later described as a routine response to seasonal illness.

Reports also described treatment drugs running short as residents rushed pharmacies.

A former colleague said Shipilova’s family believes doctors initially treated her illness as a severe COVID case and administered antibiotics too late.

Buryatia’s regional leader, Alexei Tsydenov, initially referred to “the woman who died from plague,” before saying she “may have died from plague.” He denied there was an outbreak.

The plague diagnosis and the reported laboratory exposure remain unconfirmed.

What is clear is the scale of the response: a dead laboratory employee, hospital quarantines, emergency border precautions, and Russia’s top sanitary official dispatched to the region.

The Trump administration is watching and assessing options.

Russian authorities are offering assurances while experts demand answers about the fatal infection and warnings disappear from public view.

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