A top World Health Organization (WHO) scientist who led an international mission to Wuhan, China, two years ago to investigate the origins of COVID-19 has been fired over alleged sexual misconduct.
Peter Ben Embarek, a Danish food scientist who headed the WHO’s One Health initiative aimed to control infectious diseases spreading between animals and humans, was dismissed last year “following findings of sexual misconduct against him that were substantiated by investigations, and corresponding disciplinary process,” according to the U.N. agency.
