Donald Trump has offered to help Vladimir Putin as Russia scrambles to contain a suspected outbreak of deadly airborne plague in Siberia.
More than 200 people are under medical observation and four hospitals have been closed for a three-week quarantine in Irkutsk, a city near Russia’s border with Mongolia, following the death of Daria Shipilova.
The 28-year-old lab technician reportedly fell ill after accidentally breaking a test tube containing plague bacteria at a Siberian research institute.
She spent days in hospital before passing away from ‘pneumonia of unknown etiology’, according to Russian officials.
But around 60 of her colleagues remain isolated in the institute amid
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