President Donald Trump says the US is looking "very strongly" at the case of a Russian lab technician who died at a plague research centre in Siberia.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington was watching closely amid concerns the incident could lead to the spread of pneumonic plague, but there was no cause for alarm.
Announcing the cause of death as "pneumonia of undetermined etiology", Irkutsk's governor said "no micro-organisms" linked to the woman's work had been found "in her biological samples".
Unconfirmed reports suggested the woman fell ill either after breaking a test tube containing the pathogen or following a field trip to a region where plague occurs naturally among wild rodents.
Asked what Washington was going to do about the risk of plague spreading from Russia, Trump said he had not spoken to the Kremlin about it.
"I hate to see them having it," he said, but added: "We'll help. Everybody who has that kind of a problem, we'll always help."
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