President Donald Trump has said he will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin about a possible plague outbreak that is said to have taken at least two lives in the country. 

The commander-in-chief announced on Tuesday he has a call scheduled with Putin about the possible cases of the pneumonic plague in Russia.

His announcement comes as officials for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say they are monitoring the threat.

A spokesperson for the agency told the Daily Mail it ‘is aware of and closely monitoring reports of a suspected case of pneumonic plague in the Irkutsk region of Russia that resulted in a death.

‘We are working across the US government to assess developments as additional information becomes available.’

Agency officials noted there was currently ‘no indication… of a broader threat’ to the US, but they were continually monitoring for updates. 

Panic broke out last week when Darya Shipilova, 28, a lab worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia reportedly told medical staff that she had accidentally broken a test tube containing live bacteria. 

Russian officials have claimed Shipilova died from an ‘unidentified pnuemonia’, but reports suggest she was infected with pneumonic plague caused by the ‘Black Death’ bacterium, which infamously killed millions in Europe during the Middle Ages.

President Donald Trump has said he will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin about a possible plague outbreak in the country

Hundreds of people she came into contact with and five hospitals, including a maternity unit, were placed into quarantine. Shipilova was hospitalized and died from the infection on October 2. 

Meanwhile, countries on the border of Russia, including Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan are tightening border health controls over the situation. 

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.