House committee seeks records after two agency scientists were charged over undeclared samples The US House committee on energy and commerce is “examining concerns” about the National Institutes of Health after two NIH scientists were charged with allegedly smuggling mpox into the United States and misleading investigators. Federal law enforcement alleges that Dr Vincent Munster, 53, a Dutch national and chief of the virus ecology section at the NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Montana, and Claude Kwe, 38, a research fellow from Cameroon, transported vials containing monkeypox, now known as mpox, into the country without declaring them to customs and then “lying about it”. Rocky Mountain Laboratories is an NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Niaid) facility that contains biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) laboratories, the highest level of biocontainment, where researchers study dangerous pathogens like Ebola and Nipah virus, often using animals such as bats and monkeys. Munster is a “well-published scientist with approximately 400 publications and 69,000 citations”. Together Munster and Kwe have co-authored 12 reports related to mpox since 2023. According t
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House committee seeks records after two agency scientists were charged over undeclared samples The US House committee on energy and commerce is “examining concerns” about the National Institutes of Health after two NIH scientists were…
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