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US officers caught courier smuggling virus from China: DHS documents
The Epoch Times ^ | 7/26/2026 | Zachary Stieber |

Posted on 07/27/2026 7:33:17 AM PDT by cuz1961

The courier said that he was given the vials by Yusen Zhou, who worked for China's Academy of Military Medical Sciences, and that the vials were intended for Fang Li, a researcher at the University of Minnesota.

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The courier said that he was given the vials by Yusen Zhou, who worked for China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences, and that the vials were intended for Fang Li, a researcher at the University of Minnesota who has co-written papers with Zhou.

Laboratory testing from DHS and the FBI confirmed that porcine epidemic diarrhea virus spike protein was in the vials, as well as partial immunoglobulin heavy chain precursor messenger ribonucleic acid.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agriculture; courier; diarrhea; falungong; fangli; minnesota; pigs; pork; redtape; scientists; smuggling; swine; swineflu; uofminnesota; vials; virus; yusenzhou
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1 posted on 07/27/2026 7:33:17 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

I sincerely believe that COVID was deliberately released by China as a test to see what effect it would have on our nation’s politics. It helped get their puppet, Joe Biden, elected.


2 posted on 07/27/2026 7:42:11 AM PDT by Avalon Memories (It seems to be a law of nature...that those who will not risk cannot win. --John Paul Jones)
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To: cuz1961

Nah, we’re not at war with the CCP. It’s all just for “research”, not for contaminating our food supply. You people are all just “conspiracy theorists”.


3 posted on 07/27/2026 7:43:47 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: cuz1961

What’s up with Minnesota?

What’s up with academia ?


4 posted on 07/27/2026 7:48:18 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

Epoch Times is behind a paywall.

Care to post the entire article?

Thx.


5 posted on 07/27/2026 7:48:33 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: cuz1961

IMO, biological warfare is much more scary than nuclear war, viruses can be introduced to a population is so many different ways, with the research being done in China, viruses can be designed to kill the host in so many different ways, it would be impossible to protect from all of them.


6 posted on 07/27/2026 7:54:48 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: srmanuel
IMO, biological warfare is much more scary than nuclear war, viruses can be introduced to a population is so many different ways, with the research being done in China, viruses can be designed to kill the host in so many different ways, it would be impossible to protect from all of them.

Open borders and free trade facilitates the spread of biological infections. The Bubonic plague was spread by rats in cargo holds of ships, and that was accidental. It would be easy for a nation to launch a biological attack and make it look like an accident.
7 posted on 07/27/2026 7:57:51 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Jane Long

It’s free, not really a paywall.

It opened for me the first time, I should have copied the whole thing.

I did post the basic event though.

Here it is...

American officers caught a person who landed in the United States carrying vials of a coronavirus from China, according to documents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies made public on July 24.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers found the vials of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus and antibody genetic material on a courier, whose name was redacted, during an inspection at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Nov. 28, 2018, according to the documents.

The courier was not authorized to carry the vials, which had been obscured in carry-on baggage with a combination of paper towels and wax film, officials said. The courier said that he was given the vials by Yusen Zhou, who worked for China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences, and that the vials were intended for Fang Li, a researcher at the University of Minnesota who has co-written papers with Zhou.

Laboratory testing from DHS and the FBI confirmed that porcine epidemic diarrhea virus spike protein was in the vials, as well as partial immunoglobulin heavy chain precursor messenger ribonucleic acid.

Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus is a highly dangerous coronavirus that causes illnesses and deaths in swine.

The attempted delivery came just one month after a student in Li’s lab offered to send live porcine epidemic diarrhea virus to an American researcher, Ralph Baric, according to emails also released on Friday


8 posted on 07/27/2026 7:58:37 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

Thanks!!

This ...

The attempted delivery came just one month after a student in Li’s lab offered to send live porcine epidemic diarrhea virus to an American researcher, Ralph Baric, according to emails also released on Friday...

Wasn’t Baric close/associated with FRAUDci?


9 posted on 07/27/2026 8:02:51 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Avalon Memories
I sincerely believe that COVID was deliberately released by China...

I am more inclined to believe it was sloppy lab procedures in the Chinese bioweapons facility that caused the original release of COVID-19.

But people "never let a crisis go to waste" as the Democrats liked to say.

A bunch of totalitarian-minded people immediately jumped on the event and exploited it for subverting the 2020 elections in the United States, and for a number of other purposes.

The Bad Guys won and got away clean with their loot. We are still dealing with the aftermath.

10 posted on 07/27/2026 8:03:52 AM PDT by flamberge (Democrats can win honest elections, just not very many of them,)
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To: cuz1961

12 Monkeys is a documentary except for the time travel crap.


11 posted on 07/27/2026 8:09:07 AM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: srmanuel

This would attack our food supply, but I think they could manipulate it to infect humans. Isn’t anyone in our expensive government bureaucracy curious about this? It seems to happen frequently how Chinese are walking around our land with pathogenic agents.


12 posted on 07/27/2026 8:09:49 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: cuz1961

The prospect of Chinese bioweapons targeting US food production is chilling. I have always thought the infamous Chinese spy balloon was a test of delivering bioweapons targeting the food producing regions of the country.


13 posted on 07/27/2026 8:11:19 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: cuz1961

Dirty dogs!


14 posted on 07/27/2026 8:22:04 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: All

Trump needs to stop coddling China!
Suspend PRC visas for at least one year!


15 posted on 07/27/2026 8:22:38 AM PDT by Reily
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To: The Great RJ

We’ll never know what those spy balloons did to us. Lord only knows.


16 posted on 07/27/2026 8:24:57 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Avalon Memories

The movie “Contagion” from 2011 is all about a virus started in China that shuts down the entire world.
MN was one of the first infection sites.


17 posted on 07/27/2026 8:28:50 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: cuz1961

We keep trading with the chicoms despite the fact that they are our enemy.


18 posted on 07/27/2026 8:32:22 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: ChuckHam

“Contagion” is very close to real and infection started in China and moved quickly to MN


19 posted on 07/27/2026 8:35:05 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Avalon Memories

“I sincerely believe that COVID was deliberately released by China as a test to see what effect it would have on our nation’s politics.”

I’ve always believed that. —Not to mention everything about that disease was weird. Take the shot and get a free donut.


20 posted on 07/27/2026 8:38:32 AM PDT by Cats1
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