00:00There hasn't been a plague pandemic in decades, so what's got everybody spooked?
00:04Let's make a coffee and get you caught up on the news.
00:08I got a little lazy today, so we did instant coffee.
00:11The U.S. says it's closely watching the news out of Russia after the death of a lab worker at
00:16an anti-plague facility in Siberia.
00:18I don't think it's cause for alarm, but it is cause for focus and a cause to just keep an
00:23eye on it, and we're doing that.
00:24And I know what you're thinking. Yeah, the plague is still around.
00:26The messaging out of Russia has been confusing, to say the least.
00:31Initial reports were that the lab worker broke a test tube and possibly died from pneumonic plague,
00:36but the Russian health agency later said the lab worker died of pneumonia of unknown origin.
00:42We'll tell you more about what we know and what we don't know on Unbiased Updates from Straight Arrow.
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