NIH Researchers Facing Charges Had Brought Viral Samples on Planes Before: Emails

‘Numbnuts lost the first shipment,’ one wrote.

Vincent Munster in an undated file image. NIH via The Epoch Times

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers who have been charged with allegedly smuggling viral pathogens into the United States previously flew or planned to fly viral samples to the United States, according to newly released emails.

Claude Kwe, who worked under Vincent Munster at the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in 2024 brought DNA from 35 samples that tested positive for monkeypox, according to one of the missives.