Two researchers affiliated with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have been charged after federal authorities accused them of smuggling monkeypox-related biological materials into the United States from the Republic of Congo and then allegedly misleading federal investigators about the contents.
Federal prosecutors announced charges Monday against Vincent Munster, 53, a citizen of the Netherlands, and Claude Kwe, 38, a citizen of Cameroon. Both men work at the NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Montana, where they study “emerging viral pathogens” and how diseases cross from animals to humans.
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