Rospotrebnadzor said it was ready to help the United States with infectious-disease problems

On October 6, AFP (Agence France-Presse), the French news agency, relayed a statement from Rospotrebnadzor, Russia’s Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing, offering help with infectious-disease problems in the United States. It appeared against the backdrop of the United States offer to help Russia.

This is a public agency statement, rather than a document recording agreed cooperation. The collected source material contains no evidence that an offer was accepted, specialists arrived or studies were conducted jointly.

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