Russia’s Potential Plague Outbreak & SCOTUS’s Biggest Cases | 10.6.26

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The US responds after hundreds are quarantined amid a plague scare possibly linked to a Iberian lab.

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Hundreds have been quarantined or placed under medical observation amid concerns about a potential outbreak of the plague in Siberia. This comes after the death of a Russian laboratory worker last week that may have a possible connection to the deadly bacteria.

John Bickley (3:07)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that US officials are closely monitoring the developments surrounding the apparent lab leak. Joining us now with more is Tim Rice, our Washington DC Bureau Chief. Great to have you on.

Tim Rice (3:19)

Happy to be here.

John Bickley (3:21)

What more can you tell us about this potential outbreak?

Tim Rice (3:24)

Sure. As you guys mentioned, this all started sometime late last week or over the weekend when a 28-year-old lab tech named Daria Shipalova died. She checked herself into the hospital with symptoms of pneumonia. It apparently advanced very rapidly and now it's suspected that she's been in the course of her work at the Russian anti-plague research facility. It dropped a vial or in some way was exposed to a type of plague. Now, this is the type of plague that you're thinking of. It's the bubonic plague, the Black Death, the thing that killed tens of millions of people in the Middle Ages.

Now, based on early reports, and we should just take a moment right here to say that this is all moving very quickly. We're pulling together a lot of different things from Russian news sources and Russian individuals who are speaking out.

So obviously, we're not super sure about any of this, but early reports seem to suggest that this is not the bubonic plague, but the pneumonic plague, which is basically the same as the plague from the Middle Ages, except it's the only one of three varieties of plague that can be transmitted person to person. So definitely calls for alarm or concern, but not a full-blown COVID lab leak situation quite yet. We should note upfront that plague is treatable. It's treatable with antibiotics. We know how to treat it. The United States has about seven cases of plague per year, usually due to animal exposure somewhere in the Western United States. But so this is a known and treatable disease, if it is the type of plague that we think it is.