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Secretary of State Marco Rubio comments on suspected plague case in Russia
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters Monday that the U.S. is monitoring a possible plague outbreak in Russia after a lab worker died. CBS News 24/7 is the premier anchored streaming news service from CBS News and Stations that is available free to everyone with access to the internet and is
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Both outlets center on Marco Rubio and a suspected plague case in Russia, but Newsweek foregrounds Rubio’s warning that it could “quickly spread,” while The Hill frames the story as Rubio taking questions from reporters. The Hill is alone in mentioning the reported toll of one death and 200 quarantined, and it also pairs the plague item with a separate reference to B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford Air Base. Newsweek’s extract alone adds a generic explanation of how pneumonic plague develops.
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