‘Smarter & Stronger’: Trump Sounds COVID-Style Alarm Over Russia Plague

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President Donald Trump has sounded a dramatic warning over the suspected plague scare in Russia, describing microbes and germs as having become “stronger and smarter” and comparing them to “an army.”Asked whether he was concerned about the situation in Siberia, Trump said he was and referred to what he called the “pneumonia plague.” He argued that diseases once considered easier to control had become harder to fight, adding that treatments which used to work on pneumonia “don’t work as well anymore.”