Senator Marco Rubio stated that the United States is monitoring the situation regarding the potential plague exposure in Russia.
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Louder with CrowderOct 5, 2026
Multiple sources confirm that Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US is monitoring the suspected plague situation in Russia, including a Reuters report quoting him saying "We're watching it very closely, hour by hour." The claim's wording is a faithful paraphrase of the post, which refers to the same Russian plague incident, and no source contradicts it.
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What was said
… More than 60 employees at the facility in Irkutsk are under forced quarantine. Gets worse: Three other hospitals are under quarantine, and, ah, your small hands guy who's come from crunch country he's Cuba's bitch. We call him Marco Rubio said that the United States is monitoring this situation. Thank you. Well, we don't we know what we know, obviously, about whatever the Russian which is, it seems that it was a and a worker at the lab, and there's concern that that, you know, could have, uh, spread, uh, at least internally, so you see them do …
Louder with Crowder · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Reuters reports that Rubio said the US was watching the Russian plague lab incident "very closely, hour by hour" and called on Russia to share more information.[1]
Supports. CNN and Mediaite report Rubio saying the US is "watching and monitoring closely" the Russian lab worker death, describing it as "cause for focus" but not alarm.[2][3]
Supports. Multiple outlets, including The Independent, Axios and Yahoo Finance, independently report Rubio's statement that the administration is closely monitoring the situation.[4][5][6]
Context. Rubio's remarks were limited to information Russian authorities had provided, and sources note the case was a suspected plague incident whose pathogen was not confirmed, which the claim's phrase "potential plague exposure" reflects.[5][7][8]
Sources
8 sources: 1 fact-checker, 7 not rated
- 1Rubio tells Russia to share more information about plague deathreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Rubio says situation in Russia is 'cause for focus' but not ...edition.cnn.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3‘A Cause for Focus’: Marco Rubio Speaks Out on Potential Russian Plague Outbreakmediaite.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4The big unknowns limiting how US will respond to possible Russian ...independent.co.uk · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Missing details keep U.S. plague response on hold - Axiosaxios.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 6Marco Rubio Says Russia's Suspected Plague Incident Not a 'Cause ...finance.yahoo.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 7US monitors suspected plague case in Russian lab worker ...ianslive.in · not rated · cited for: context
- 8Rubio reacts to plague case in Russianewsukraine.rbc.ua · not rated · cited for: context
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- Russian officials told the World Health Organization on Tuesday that no plague has been found among the contacts of the deceased laboratory technician.True