# Trump: US sees no link between Irkutsk infection case and bioweapons research

https://mins.news/en/item/90224

- TASS, 2026-10-07 18:54 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2199001

> Donald Trump said the United States does not believe a pneumonia case of unknown cause in Russia’s Irkutsk Region resulted from Russian biological-weapons research, while saying the matter would be examined further. Russia’s consumer-protection watchdog had reported stable sanitary conditions, and expanded testing found no microorganisms linked to the patient’s work.

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