00:00Good afternoon everyone. Thank you. We are aware of the reports concerning the laboratory incident in Russia, seemingly involving a
00:09pathogen-causing plague.
00:13Just to give you a broader picture, a plague is an infectious disease that can be caused by bacteria Yersinia
00:23pestis.
00:23It's treatable by antibiotics, and it has been absent from Europe for more than 50 years, but continues to appear
00:33randomly in Americas, in Africa, and in Asia.
00:38As I said, public health is always a priority for us, so we are in touch with our experts from
00:44European Center for Disease Prevention and Control,
00:49and we monitor very closely what is going on.
00:54Thank you. I have a follow-up, Jorge.
