He said sepsis always started with an infection but it was not known why some people developed it and others did not.
Talking over the Ukrainian president, Vance told the visiting leader it was "disrespectful" for him to come to the Oval Office and make his case in front of the American media and demanded that he thank Trump for his leadership.Journalists in the room watched with gaping mouths as an extraordinary exchange followed.
"You've done enough talking. You're not winning this," Trump told him at one point. "You gotta be thankful. You don't have the cards.""I'm not playing cards," Zelensky replied. "I'm very serious, Mr President. I'm the president in a war.""You're gambling with World War Three," Trump responded. "And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country, that's backed you far more than a lot of people said they should have."
Vance retorted: "Have you said 'thank you' once this entire meeting? No."Ukraine's ambassador to the US watched with her head in her hands.
The atmosphere had shifted entirely - and all out in the open.
Our American colleagues remarked that they had never seen anything like it. "A scene like this was simply unimaginable in the White House," one told me."We need to do better, to support students, education and jobs in the city".
Scottish Conservative education spokesman Miles Briggs MSP described the news as "an absolute hammer blow for staff"."Years of mismanagement at the university and brutal cuts from the SNP government are coming to home to roost and the consequences look set to be devastating," he said.
"SNP ministers are still asleep the wheel as this crisis only continues to escalate at the university and need to act now."Michael Marra, the Labour MSP for North East Scotland, said the job losses would be "devastating" for both the workers and the wider Dundee economy.