STONEZONE (Roger Stone) - NIH Scientists Caught Attempting to Smuggle Deactivated Monkeypox Samples Through Detroit Airport, Same Entry Point as Prior Foreign National Cases
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged two foreign nationals working at the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana with illegally smuggling deactivated monkeypox virus samples into the United States and with lying to federal agents. Vincent Munster, a 53-year-old Dutch citizen and Chief of the Virus Ecology Section at NIH’s Rocky Mountain […] The post NIH Scientists Caught Attempting to Smuggle Deactivated Monkeypox Samples Through Detroit Airport, Same Entry Point as Prior Foreign National Cases appeared first on StoneZone .
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged two foreign nationals working at the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana with illegally smuggling deactivated monkeypox virus samples into the United States and with lying to federal agents. Vincent Munster, a 53-year-old Dutch citizen and Chief of the Virus Ecology Section at NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratory, and Claude Kwe, a 38-year-old research fellow from Cameroon, were indicted following their arrival at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on January 25, 2026. The pair had flown in from Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, where a monkeypox outbreak was ongoing, carrying a large black plastic case. They told Customs and Border Protection officers that it…Open