The World Health Organization says a possible case of pneumonic plague poses a very low risk outside Russia.
Russian officials have reportedly placed 200 people under medical observation and quarantined the hospital where a 28-year-old lab worker died.
Host Robin Young gets the latest on the mysterious illness and the lab it may have originated from Dr. Ashish Jha, former White House COVID-19 response coordinator and co-founder of BioRadar USA.
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