Posted on 04/17/2026 3:20:48 AM PDT by Libloather
A Chinese researcher was sentenced to more than four months in prison after pleading guilty to smuggling Escherichia coli (E. coli) into the United States, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.
Youhuang Xiang, 32, a former Indiana University postdoctoral researcher and Chinese national, admitted to concealing E. coli DNA in a shipment from China that was falsely labeled as women’s underwear, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana.
Prosecutors said the FBI also uncovered evidence that Xiang was a member of the Chinese Communist Party and had lied about that affiliation to immigration authorities. Authorities said the case raises concerns about public safety and the integrity of federally funded research.
"Such conduct poses a very serious threat to public safety and to the health of our agricultural economy," U.S. Attorney Tom Wheeler said.
Authorities said Xiang received the package at his Bloomington, Indiana, residence in March 2024 after it was shipped from a China-based company and mislabeled on the manifest to avoid detection.
According to court documents, the FBI’s Indianapolis Division began investigating suspicious shipments from China to individuals affiliated with Indiana University in November 2025. Agents determined that Xiang had received a shipment from Guangzhou Sci-Tech Innovation Trading that was declared as "Underwear of Man-Made Fibers, Other Womens." Investigators found the shipment unusual, given the company’s focus on science and technology products.
He was later stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Chicago O’Hare International Airport in November 2025 upon his return from a research trip to the United Kingdom. Authorities said he initially denied knowledge of the shipment before admitting the contents had intentionally concealed samples of DNA of E. coli bacteria, according to court documents.
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She could have gone to any Walmart and picked up a bag of e-coli.
We caught a Chinese spy working at Intel back in the early 90’s who hid top secret documents in his wife’s underwear drawer.
Lol
We get it free from Mexican field workers.
Was it used underwear? Because cooch crud can be contagious, too.
Man, I wish I said Cooch Cooties instead.
weaponized?
maybe it’s been altered? Ready to be spread? I trust the chinamen as far as I can throw them
They recently murdered millions of people worldwide with their bat bioweapon, so I don’t put any trust in them. That 3 Gorges dam can’t burst fast enough. When is the next monsoon/typhoon?
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