{"id":524591,"date":"2026-10-05T10:35:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/?p=524591"},"modified":"2026-10-05T10:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:36:03","slug":"u-s-monitors-reports-of-suspected-plague-breach-at-russian-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/u-s-monitors-reports-of-suspected-plague-breach-at-russian-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. monitors reports of suspected plague breach at Russian laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that American officials are closely monitoring reports of a suspected plague breach at a Russian research laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The concern follows reports that a Russian laboratory technician became infected and died, prompting localized quarantine measures in the region. U.S. health and security agencies are monitoring the potential risk of a containment failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a cause for alarm, but it is a reason for attention and a reason to simply keep an eye on it. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing,\u201d Rubio said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that American officials are closely monitoring reports of a suspected plague breach at a Russian research laboratory. The concern follows reports that a Russian laboratory technician became infected and died, prompting localized quarantine measures in the region. U.S. health and security agencies are monitoring the potential risk of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":524592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[37165,95],"tags":[611,40230],"class_list":["post-524591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-international","tag-deultimominuto","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2ct9","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/IMG_6639.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Edith B\u00e1ez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-11-at-11.09.56-AM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Health","International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/IMG_6639.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}