# Former CDC director says suspected pneumonic plague death in Russia is ‘not cause for alarm’

https://mins.news/en/video/87551

- Fox News, 2026-10-06 07:15 UTC
- Health
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWXqyepBvH0

> Former CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield and former CIA Moscow station chief Dan Hoffman discuss U.S. monitoring of a suspected pneumonic plague death linked to a Russian lab, saying the case is not a cause for alarm.

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