DOJ Charged 2 NIH Scientists with Smuggling Deactivated Monkeypox Virus Into US

Two scientists appear in court in alleged virus 'smuggling' case

HAMILTON — Rocky Mountain Labs scientists Vincent Munster and Claude Kwe made their initial appearance at Russell Smith Federal Courthouse in Missoula on Wednesday.

NIH Scientists Flew Monkeypox From Congo Outbreak on Packed Plane

Two federally funded scientists are accused of sneaking 113 pathogen vials from an African outbreak zone onto a U.S. passenger jet, raising hard questions about who is really guarding America’s biosecurity. Story Snapshot Two National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers are charged with conspiring to smuggle deactivated monkeypox vials into the United States and lying to federal agents. Prosecutors say the men misled Customs officers in Detr…

DOJ charged 2 NIH scientists with smuggling deactivated monkeypox virus into US

The two researchers, who are Dutch and Cameroonian citizens, reportedly pleaded not guilty to the charges.

FBI Arrests Two Federal Workers for Smuggling Monkeypox

The FBI has taken action against two federal employees accused of plotting to introduce monkeypox into the United States. This alarming incident raises serious questions about security and oversight. The post FBI Arrests Two Federal Workers for Smuggling Monkeypox appeared first on News Addicts.

Two Federal Employees Arrested For Attempting To Smuggle Deadly Pathogen

Two federal employees have been arrested by the FBI for allegedly conspiring to smuggle monkeypox into the United States. Vincent Munster, 53, a citizen of the Netherlands and chief of the Virus Ecology Section in the Laboratory of Virology at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Montana, and Claude Kwe, 38, a citizen of Cameroon and a research fellow in Munster’s section, were charged in a federal cri…

Foreign nationals charged for trying to smuggle Monkeypox into U.S. through Detroit airport - The Midwesterner

Two foreign nationals who tried to smuggle Monkeypox through the Detroit Metropolitan Airport while working as researchers for the U.S. government were charged this week. Vincent Munster and Claude Kwe, who both worked for the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana, allegedly tried to smuggle 113 vials – some of which contained the infectious virus – into the U.S. through Detroit in January after travelling to the R…