00:00We are aware of the reports concerning the laboratory incident in Russia, seemingly involving a pathogen-causing plague.
00:10Just to give you a broader picture, a plague is an infectious disease that can be caused by bacteria Yersinia
00:20pestis.
00:21It's treatable by antibiotics, and it has been absent from Europe for more than 50 years, but continues to appear
00:30randomly in Americas, in Africa, and in Asia.
00:35As I said, public health is always a priority for us, so we are in touch with our experts from
00:42European Center for Disease Prevention and Control,
00:46and we monitor very closely what is going on.
