Posted on 06/04/2026 9:07:14 AM PDT by algore
Two top US government scientists have been charged with smuggling vials of mpox into the country - and then allegedly lying about it when questioned by officials.
According to a criminal complaint from the US Attorney's Office, Vincent Munster, 53, and Claude Kwe, 38, researchers at the National Institutes of Health's Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana, arrived at McNamara Airport in Detroit on January 25 from the Republic of Congo, where an mpox outbreak was taking place.
Border agents stopped them after noting they were carrying a large black plastic case.
When asked, Munster is alleged - according to a criminal complaint - to have 'adamantly denied' returning to the US with biological materials or samples, and to have said that the case contained diagnostic and testing equipment.
But when officials inspected the case, according to the complaint, they found 113 vials tightly packed inside foam coolers. Tests showed that some of the vials contained deactivated mpox virus, chickenpox virus and human DNA.
Officials said the scientists failed to declare these or obtain the necessary permissions before seeking to enter the US.
Marcus Sykes, an official at the Office of the Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services, told AP in a statement: 'Any deliberate effort to conceal and smuggle biological materials into the United States without proper authorization is a breach of the public’s trust and could have placed the public at risk.'
According to the complaint, Munster told investigators at the airport that any necessary documents were on his laptop, adding, 'but you don't need them, I do this all the time'.
Jennifer Runyan, a special agent in charge of the FBI Detroit Field Office, said: 'No researcher should believe their positions, credentials, or professional status place them above the law.
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Homosexual flight attendants have been doing that for years.
Follow the science.
Ebola experiment volunteer.
How about NATURAL BORN CITIZENS ONLY working in our BioLabs?
How about every job? We don’t need a foreign workforce and they are not brighter than us. Turn off the welfare spicket and Americans will work.
Perhaps they should be the first test subjects.
The stereotypical “Mad Scientist” seems to be getting traction.
He should get the death penalty if convicted.
“Hey! You put peanut butter into my chocolate!
Actually, YOU just put your chocolate smack dab into MY peanut butter, and I want to know what you’re going to do about it?”
the enemies of America sure don’t have to work very hard to undermine us, what with people like this available for them to do jobs, gigs like this against us
Wuhan Flu was a good run but not enough. Hanta fizzled and Ebola is going to turn out to be arsenic poisoning from Third world pit mining of rare earths. Maybe we can get a COVID reprise with monkeypox. Gotta do something to monkey wrench Trump and the uncooperative part of the citizenry and collapse the economy.
They really do want to exterminate us. That has been obvious since 2020. The only question is how exactly.
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