The White House is monitoring reports of a suspected plague case and related quarantines in Russia, a Trump administration official told Axios on Sunday.
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What they're saying: The Trump administration "is aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," the administration official said.
Several hospitals in Irkutsk had imposed three-week quarantines, the news outlet People of Baikal reported on October 4. City Clinical Hospitals No. 1, No. 3, and No. 10 and the Ivano-Matreninskaya Children’s Hospital are closed, the outlet reported. Relatives of a woman giving birth at one of Irkutsk’s maternity hospitals told the outlet that it had also imposed a quarantine.
A health care source told the outlet that doctors in Irkutsk “are already openly talking about plague,” though documents sent to the hospitals do not mention that diagnosis. “With pneumonic plague, quarantine restrictions are not limited to selected facilities — they are imposed on all medical facilities at once,” the source told People of Baikal.
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https://www.axios.com/2026/10/04/russia-plague-outbreak-white-house-us
Local Irkutsk region media (blocked in Russia):
https://t.me/Baikal_People/16651 (English translation by Meduza)