Russia disputes plague report as Trump offers U.S. help

President Donald Trump said the US was ready to help Russia with the reported plague case (Brendan SMIALOWSKI)Russia on Monday sought to downplay reports that a laboratory technician had died of plague, even as President Donald Trump said Washington was closely monitoring the situation and offered US help.Reports on Friday that pneumonic plague had killed a 28-year-old woman named Darya Shipilova, who had been working for the anti-plague institute in Siberia's Irkutsk region, sparked alarm."We'r