DETROIT (AP) — Two scientists at a U.S. government lab were charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa and lying about it during interviews with investigators at a Michigan airport, authorities said Tuesday.
A criminal complaint was unsealed in federal court in Detroit against Vincent Munster, who is chief of the virus ecology section at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, and Claude Kwe, who works with him.
Munster and Kwe were stopped at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in January after a flight from Paris and nine days in the Republic of Congo. An outbreak of the mpox disease has been linked to more than 2,000 deaths in Congo, a vast region in central Africa, though a two-year outbreak was declared over in April.
Munster “adamantly denied” returning to the U.S. with biological materials or samples, the FBI said in a court filing.
But tests subsequently revealed that Munster and Kwe were traveling with vials of deactivated mpox, the FBI said, yet they had failed to declare them or obtain the necessary permission.
Paul, thank you so much for this excellent interview. I felt Dr. Quay was being diplomatic in some of his answers, which is de rigueur these days. We have big problems with peer review journals, they can’t be trusted anymore because of major violations via special interests. I believe the anti vax ad hominem narrative was the creation of the pharmaceutical industry. I caught you saying people were disappearing, which I was interested in hearing more but perhaps it’s too dodgy a subject. Again, it’s not clear why GOF exists. I think it has to do with money. A molecular biologists Richard Ebright is hot on this topic of lab leak vs zoonotic origins along with Bryce Nichols. Alex Washburne I believe worked at DARPA at the time overseeing funding.
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DETROIT (AP) — Two scientists at a U.S. government lab were charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa and lying about it during interviews with investigators at a Michigan airport, authorities said Tuesday.
A criminal complaint was unsealed in federal court in Detroit against Vincent Munster, who is chief of the virus ecology section at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, and Claude Kwe, who works with him.
Munster and Kwe were stopped at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in January after a flight from Paris and nine days in the Republic of Congo. An outbreak of the mpox disease has been linked to more than 2,000 deaths in Congo, a vast region in central Africa, though a two-year outbreak was declared over in April.
Munster “adamantly denied” returning to the U.S. with biological materials or samples, the FBI said in a court filing.
But tests subsequently revealed that Munster and Kwe were traveling with vials of deactivated mpox, the FBI said, yet they had failed to declare them or obtain the necessary permission.
Ya Know I'm starting to suspect Anthony Fauci might have been less than totally honest.
Paul, thank you so much for this excellent interview. I felt Dr. Quay was being diplomatic in some of his answers, which is de rigueur these days. We have big problems with peer review journals, they can’t be trusted anymore because of major violations via special interests. I believe the anti vax ad hominem narrative was the creation of the pharmaceutical industry. I caught you saying people were disappearing, which I was interested in hearing more but perhaps it’s too dodgy a subject. Again, it’s not clear why GOF exists. I think it has to do with money. A molecular biologists Richard Ebright is hot on this topic of lab leak vs zoonotic origins along with Bryce Nichols. Alex Washburne I believe worked at DARPA at the time overseeing funding.
Correction on spelling Bryce Nickels