BBC: “I think it’s incumbent upon Russia to obviously share more information with the world,” Rubio told reporters. “We’re watching it very closely, hour by hour.”
…Unconfirmed reports suggested that she had become ill after breaking a test tube containing the pathogen or following a field trip to a region where plague occurs naturally among wild rodents.
But Russian officials have played down those reports. The country’s health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said the woman had died of “pneumonia of an undetermined etiology”…
U.S. preparing formal request to Russia for information on plague death
The planned request comes amid growing U.S. frustration about the lack of detailed information from Russia after its public health agency reported that a laboratory worker employed at an institute dedicated to studying plague in the Irkutsk region had died after being diagnosed with pneumonia of “unknown” origin.
A formal message from the United States — known as a démarche in diplomatic lingo — would seek to remind Russia that it has obligations under international law to share information about disease outbreaks with other governments in a timely manner, the officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic matters…