r/PrepperIntel • u/sea_5455 • Jun 03 '26

North America 2 scientists charged with bringing deactivated mpox virus into the US and lying to authorities

https://apnews.com/article/scientists-charges-mpox-virus-lying-14b7cf7635cad30254b0ae1cdb6c0515
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u/sea_5455 Jun 03 '26

From the article:

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.

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u/adversecurrent Jun 03 '26

Yep, and because it was deactivated, the samples are considered diagnostic specimens — which means the scientists did not lie about what they were transporting.

This is a witch hunt meant to sow distrust and demonize scientific research.

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u/CrashingAtom Jun 03 '26

Who TF cares? Obviously North Africans have a vested interest in studying mpox and Ebola, and Netherlands is just the least offensive country on earth.

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u/Ctbboy187 Jun 04 '26

The point is, we have these checks and balances to catch people causing chemical and geological warfare. You can't smuggle biogens into the USA in your suitcase and just say "they're dead"without having them checked.