A former CDC director has raised fears that the suspected plague case in Russia may be due to a ‘manipulated’ strain of the disease.
Dr Robert Redfield, who led the agency at the start of the Covid pandemic, told NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas Reports: ‘I’m concerned because beyond the woman [herself] that got infected, I’m looking at the response.’
He said that even though pneumonic plague, which is extremely rare but can kill a patient within 24 hours, does not often spread from person to person, ‘the Russians have reacted pretty aggressively and closed down five hospitals, isolated over 200 people.’
‘That’s not pneumonic plague,’ he
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