[CNN] 2 scientists charged with bringing deactivated mpox virus into the US

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📌 标题:2 scientists charged with bringing deactivated mpox virus into the US and lying to authorities

📅 发布时间:Updated Jun 2, 2026, 7:45 PM ET

📝 英文原文:
Two scientists at a U.S. government lab were charged with smuggling vials of deactivatedmpox virusinto 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 wasdeclared overin 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.“Any deliberate effort to conceal and smuggle biological materials into the United States without proper authorization is a breach of the public’s trust and could have placed the public at risk,” said Marcus Sykes of the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services.Munster and Kwe did not immediately respond to requests for comment. They are expected to appear in federal court in Missoula, Montana, on Wednesday. An email seeking comment was also sent to HHS, the lab’s parent agency.There was no mention in the government’s court filing about why Munster and Kwe may have wanted to bring the deactivated mpox virus to their lab. But they are virologists who have worked extensively on mpox research, the FBI said.Munster told investigators at the Detroit-area airport that any necessary documents were in his laptop, “but you don’t need them. I do this all the time,” the FBI quoted him as saying.“It is reas

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🇨🇳 中文翻译:
当局周二表示,美国政府实验室的两名科学家被指控从非洲走私灭活痘病毒进入美国,并在密歇根机场接受调查人员采访时撒谎。底特律联邦法院已对蒙大拿州汉密尔顿落基山实验室病毒生态学部门负责人文森特·蒙斯特 (Vincent Munster) 和与他共事的克劳德·奎 (Claude Kwe) 提起刑事诉讼。蒙斯特和奎在底特律大都会



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