Trump calls reported pneumatic plague outbreak ‘big problem for Russia’: ‘The microbes and the germs have gotten stronger’

Source: New York Post

WASHINGTON — President Trump gave an ominous assessment of the suspected outbreak of pneumonic plague in Siberia Monday, calling it a “big problem for Russia” and adding cryptically that “the microbes and the germs have gotten stronger. ” It was not immediately clear what Trump meant in his assessment of dangerous pathogens as global panic mounts following the death of Daria Shipilova, 28, who worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute. “It’s a rough disease.