Doctors Who Treated Skripals Uncertain About Their Long-Term Health

Doctors Who Treated Skripals Uncertain About Their Long-Term Health
Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned in Salisbury along with her father, Russian spy Sergei Skripal, speaks to media representatives in London, on May 23, 2018. Dylan Martinez/AFP/Getty Images
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LONDON—The doctors who treated a Russian former spy and his daughter after they were poisoned with a nerve agent in Britain say they don’t know what the pair’s long-term health outlook is—and initially feared the incident could have been much worse.

Sergei Skripal, a former colonel in Russia’s military intelligence who betrayed dozens of agents to Britain, and daughter Yulia were found unconscious on a public bench in the southern English city of Salisbury on March 4.