# Russia responds to US offer of help after plague researcher’s death

https://mins.news/en/item/88072

- BBC News, 2026-10-06 13:32 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c8e36y796enno?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> Russia and the US have each offered to help the other tackle infectious diseases. After a Russian lab technician died at a plague research centre in Siberia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov urged people to ignore rumours and rely only on information from Russia’s public health watchdog, which said the cause was pneumonia of unknown origin.

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