Two government scientists are facing federal charges after authorities say they smuggled biological samples of the mpox virus into the United States and lied about it to investigators.
The case shines an uncomfortable light on lax oversight within taxpayer-funded research institutions and raises fresh concerns about how potentially dangerous materials are handled by those entrusted to protect public health.
Vincent Munster, the chief of the virus ecology section at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana, and fellow researcher Claude Kwe were ...
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