Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia

The White House is monitoring reports of a suspected plague case and related quarantines in Russia's Siberia. A Trump administration official confirmed the government is assessing options regarding the outbreak. The situation follows the death of Daria Shipilova, a twenty-eight-year-old employee at an anti-plague research institute in the Irkutsk region. Shipilova reportedly broke a test tube containing the pneumonic plague pathogen. Russian health authorities have implemented precautionary measures, although they have not confirmed the infection.