‘Let That Sink In’: Feds Charge Two NIH Researchers With Smuggling Mpox Into U.S.
Two NIH researchers are charged with conspiring to smuggle biological materials, including deactivated monkeypox virus samples, into the U.S. from Africa. The researchers work at a Biosafety Level 4 laboratory in Montana. The charges have renewed scrutiny of safety procedures for handling potentially dangerous pathogens.
Two National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers are charged with conspiring to smuggle biological materials, including deactivated monkeypox virus samples, into the U.S. from Africa. The researchers also allegedly lied to federal authorities about what they were carrying, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday in federal court in Detroit.
Vincent Munster, Ph.D., a Dutch citizen and chief of the Virus Ecology Section at NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, and Claude Kwe Yinda, Ph.D., a Cameroonian research fellow, are charged with conspiracy to smuggle goods into the U.S. and making false statements to federal investigators.
Both men work at a Biosafety Level 4 laboratory, the highest level of containment used for research involving dangerous pathogens.
According to federal prosecutors, the researchers arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Jan. 25 after traveling from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where a monkeypox outbreak was ongoing.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers questioned the pair about a large black case they were carrying. Prosecutors allege the men told officers the case contained diagnostic and testing equipment, but investigators later determined it held 113 vials stored in Styrofoam coolers.
Testing of a portion of the samples found deactivated monkeypox virus in 17 vials, chickenpox virus in one vial and human DNA in two others.
“These NIH experts apparently broke our laws by smuggling viral pathogens on a packed commercial airplane from an outbreak in the Republic of Congo,” U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. said in announcing the charges. “Let that sink in.”
Federal authorities stressed that the case centers on alleged violations of importation and disclosure requirements. Prosecutors did not accuse the defendants of intentionally releasing pathogens or harming the public.
FBI Detroit Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Runyan said the allegations demonstrate that scientific credentials do not exempt researchers from federal statutes.
“No researchers should believe their positions, credentials, or professional status place them above the law,” Runyan said. (See link for article)
Tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsch used advanced AI to analyze raw, independent datasets about mRNA injuries – and uncovered what “no public health official wants to know.” Legacy media continues to ignore the staggering reality of adverse reactions and side effects of mRNA for COVID-19. Steve Kirsch took matters into his own hands – and his latest analysis estimates that as many as 2 million Americans were seriously disabled by the shots. He joins Dr. Kelly Victory to share his methods, how he used AI to analyze the data, and why “not a single national public-health authority, anywhere in the world, has produced an estimate of the type we just constructed.”
CHAPTERS
0:00 – Dr. Kelly Victory & Steve Kirsch: Exposing mRNA Data
5:30 – How Steve Kirsch Used AI To Analyze mRNA Injuries
18:15 – Steve Kirsch Offered $3.3 Million To Debate The Science, Nobody Took It
24:40 – “Scared Of Losing”: Why They Refuse To Debate Kirsch’s data
FDA’s own data flagged sudden cardiac death, heart attacks, blood clots, neurological damage, and dementia… and the FDA analyst uncovering it was ordered to “cease and desist.”
Even after Dr. Szarfman and DuMouchel published their findings in Drug Safety (2022) showing masking was eight times more likely with COVID vaccines, and Dr. Robert Califf replied “Thanks. These are good,”no changes were made to the methodology.
This is documented, internal FDA communication showing deliberate suppression of safety signals at the exact moment millions of Americans were being told the shots were “safe and effective.” (See link for article)
COVID forced the public to ask whether a pandemic could come from a lab. Now, years later, Congress is hearing testimony about a COVID lab-leak coverup, and Tulsi Gabbard is reportedly investigating more than 120 U.S.-funded foreign biolabs.
Experts Warn Lab Leaks ‘Surprisingly Common’ After NIH Confirms Possible Exposure to Deadly Virus at Montana Lab
An employee at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana was potentially exposed to Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever following a personal protective equipment breach in November 2025, according to the National Institutes of Health. The incident highlights the lack of a centralized federal system to track all laboratory incidents across agencies and institutions.
This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website.
A Rocky Mountain Laboratories employee in Hamilton, Montana, may have been exposed to Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in November 2025 after an accidental breach of personal protective equipment, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The incident was reported to NIH in February 2026, according to internal communications referenced in documents shared by White Coat Waste.
NIH officials said the employee did not become infected, and no transmission occurred.
“The employee was immediately isolated and monitored under appropriate care at a specialized medical facility before it was confirmed that no actual exposure or transmission had occurred,” NIH said in a statement. “At no time was there any risk to the public or to other staff.”
What is Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever?
CCHF is a rare but potentially fatal viral disease spread primarily through infected tick bites or contact with the blood and bodily fluids of infected animals or people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The disease, which is most common in parts of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Eastern and Southern Europe, can cause high fever, severe headache, vomiting, internal bleeding and hemorrhaging. The CDC reported that up to 50% of hospitalized patients may die from the illness.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations said veterinarians and healthcare workers, and people who work closely with livestock, face an elevated risk of infection, while human-to-human transmission can occur through exposure to contaminated blood, medical equipment or bodily fluids.
There is no approved cure or available vaccine for CCHF, according to the World Health Organization.
Incident occurred at high-containment NIH lab
Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) facility operated by NIH, conducts research on high-consequence infectious diseases, including tick-borne and emerging viral pathogens.
The facility is designed to study “confounding health issues, such as coronavirus, influenza, prion diseases, and antibiotic-resistant bacteria.”
It is part of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. It has historically focused on vector-borne and infectious conditions, including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and other pathogens.
Lab leaks ‘surprisingly common’
Lab leaks involving dangerous pathogens occur more often than widely understood, according to some biosafety researchers.
Richard Ebright, Ph.D., a molecular biologist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, said lab accidents that result in laboratory-acquired infections or releases are “surprisingly common.”
“The CCHF incident … was just one of an average of five such events that occur every week in the U.S., Canada and the U.K.,” he said.
Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist and professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, said these types of dangers are treated with vigilance.
“When there is a leak there is a response,” he said. “The general track record is an affirmation that this system is working around the world.”
‘Not mandatory’ to report all leaks
Oversight of high-containment biological research laboratories in the U.S., however, remains fragmented, without a centralized federal system to track all laboratory incidents across agencies and institutions.
“There is no national database because it’s not mandatory to report all leaks,” said Alina Chan, Ph.D., a vector and genetic engineering specialist.
However, reporting of accidents, exposures and potential containment breaches in the U.S. has “no federal accounting of incidents” beyond a narrow set of regulated pathogens and “no official registry” for many high-containment laboratories.
Korol’s analysis contrasted the U.S. system with Canada’s centralized Laboratory Incident Notification Canada program, which requires mandatory national reporting of biosafety incidents. She warned that inconsistent documentation and oversight can hinder transparency, risk assessment and coordinated responses to potential lab leaks.
‘Continual improvement’ needed
A 2024 scoping review in The Lancet documented 309 lab-acquired infections involving 51 pathogens and 16 reported accidental pathogen escape incidents between 2000 and 2021.
The authors concluded that “continual improvement” in biosafety management and reporting standards is essential, noting that underreporting and inconsistent oversight likely obscure the true scale of the problem.
Researchers said stronger reporting systems and root-cause investigations are necessary to reduce future incidents and improve laboratory accountability worldwide.
The authors wrote that “the question is not if a pathogen will escape, but rather which pathogen will and what measures are in place to contain an escape with serious consequences.”
Baric Published Traceless Coronavirus Genome Engineering Platform Just Days Before the 2002 SARS-CoV-1 Pandemic Began
NIH-funded project describes how to digitally assemble, manipulate, and reconstruct full coronavirus genomes while removing visible engineering fingerprints from the final sequence.
In November 2002—the same month Chinese officials later said the first SARS cases began appearing in Guangdong Province—a team led by University of North Carolina coronavirologist Ralph Baric published a paper describing a programmable, full-length coronavirus genome assembly system capable of reconstructing coronavirus genomes while removing visible assembly fingerprints from the final construct.
The paper, published November 1, 2002, in the Journal of Virology, was titled “Systematic Assembly of a Full-Length Infectious cDNA of Mouse Hepatitis Virus Strain A59” and described a new reverse-genetics platform for assembling an entire coronavirus genome from modular DNA fragments.
The work was financed by American tax dollars in the form of research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH): “AI23946 and GM63228 to R.S.B., AI26603 to M.R.D., and AI17418 to S.R.W.”
The timing raises obvious questions about whether the emergence of sophisticated government-backed coronavirus engineering systems and the beginning of the SARS era were truly independent events.
Important excerpt:
Years later, Baric would outline and patent how to engineer coronaviruses with SARS-CoV-2’s defining traits—a furin cleavage site (PRRA) insertion at the S1/S2 junction, targeted human-optimizing mutations throughout the receptor-binding domain (including the critical Q498 residue), and the two-proline (V1060P/L1061P) substitution to stabilize the spike protein in its prefusion conformation—just months before the COVID-19 pandemic began.
(See link for article)
**Comment**
It’s important to update history when facts become known.
The reason it’s important to link Baric’s paper and work done on SARS is because the work led to COVID. It’s important to emphasize the bit about ‘removing visible assembly fingerprints.’ This simply means it was manipulated purposely to be invisible – a lot like Lyme/MSIDS.
Just to refresh your memory, President Trump declared a national emergency in March 2020, which consolidated power into the executive branch, placing COVID as a military operation and effectively declaring a medical martial law. According to Attorney Todd Callender, all federal legal cases regarding COVID crimes were dismissed because the military was prosecuting a war during a declared national emergency. This can happen again at any time.
An HHS-funded study published this month says that scientists have lab-engineered brand-new reassortant “Frankenstein” bird flu viruses said to carry genetic components from the 2024 dairy cow H5N1 outbreak and a purportedly fatal 2025 Washington H5N5 case, creating pathogens the paper warns may possess enhanced immune-evasion potential in humans.
The study, published in Nature Communications, was conducted by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the University of Chicago.
The paper repeatedly warns that the bird flu constructs like the ones these researchers engineered may pose an increased risk to humans because much of the population possesses weak or nonexistent immunity against them.
The experiments align with published gain-of-function definitions involving enhanced immune evasion, altered host range dynamics, and pandemic-preparedness research.
“This project was funded in part with federal funds from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under contract no. 75N93021C00015 and grant number R01AI08686.”
The disclosure section also states lead author Scott E. Hensley:
“is a co-inventor on patents that describe the use of nucleoside-modified mRNA as a vaccine platform.”
The paper further states Hensley received consulting fees from:
Sanofi
Pfizer
Lumen
Novavax
Merck
(See link for article)
According to investigative journalist Jon Fleetwood, newly released H.R. 8595, which readies $3.35 BILLION for future global health threats, keeps Bill Gates’ ‘vaccine’ syndicate GAVI plugged into the U.S. funding pipeline.
the bill is not merely funding emergency humanitarian aid.
It’s funding the continued buildout of international public health infrastructure capable of coordinating surveillance systems, outbreak-response mechanisms, immunization campaigns, emergency-response networks, and foreign health-crisis operations across multiple nations.
The legislation also explicitly authorizes programs tied to: “disaster preparedness training for health crises” and: “programs to prevent, prepare for, and respond to unanticipated and emerging global health threats.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has invoked the controversial PREP Act to shield FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical from legal liability for favipiravir (Avigan), an antiviral drug that is not approved for hantavirus treatment in any country and has never received FDA approval in the United States.
The declaration, signed May 22, 2026, provides broad liability protection to the Japanese manufacturer, distributors, and healthcare providers using the drug on people said to have been exposed during the MV Hondius cruise ship outbreak and their close contacts.
This PREP Act declaration, in effect through July 18, 2026, limits lawsuits for injuries or deaths caused by the drug.
The move raises major health freedom concerns involving informed consent, bodily autonomy, pharmaceutical liability shielding, experimental countermeasure deployment during a publicized outbreak event, and the use of emergency powers to protect manufacturers and administrators from accountability if Americans are injured or killed by the drug.
You can contact HHS here to voice opposition to the use of emergency powers to shield experimental hantavirus countermeasures and pharmaceutical manufacturers from legal liability. (See link for article)
Important Excerpts:
According to the official Japanese regulatory documents from the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA), preclinical animal studies have shown that favipiravir has the risk of teratogenicity and reproductive toxicity in experimental animals, including findings indicative of birth defects in mice, rats, rabbits, and monkeys, along with decreases in live fetal body weight and in the number of live fetuses.
The official Japanese product label for favipiravir warns that the drug can cause serious hepatic dysfunction and jaundice, including clinically significant elevations in liver enzymes (AST/GOT, ALT/GPT, γ-GTP), which may progress to life-threatening liver injury.
A July 2025 Pathogens publication confirms the U.S. military funded experiments aerosolizing hantavirus pathogens (making them airborne) with a 30% fatality rate.
Less than a year after the publication, the Andes hantavirus cruise ship outbreak would be declared.
Moreover, NIAID’s $70 million PROVIDENT program actively funded and operated a large-scale hantavirus preparedness initiative that engineered vaccine platforms, mapped Andes hantavirus structures in unprecedented detail, developed rapid-response countermeasure systems, and prioritized hantaviruses as future pandemic targets in the run-up to the 2026 international Andes hantavirus outbreak.
The Andes hantavirus genome was built from human blood at the infamous U.S. military biolab Fort Detrick.
Governor Bob Ferguson announced this month that Washington State is now part of the World Health Organization Global Outbreak and Response Network (GOARN), an international syndicate of “public health agencies, national governments, academic centers, laboratories, and response organizations focused on rapidly detecting and responding to public health emergencies,” according to a press release from the Washington State Nurses Association (WSNA).
Washington joins California, Illinois, Colorado, and New York City by entering GOARN.
According to WSNA, Washington’s public health leaders will fall in line with the WHO’s:
global outbreak early-warning alerts, meaning real-time surveillance tied into an international detection system
technical collaboration and support during major public health events, meaning coordinated response across jurisdictions
international training, exercises, and best-practice exchanges, meaning standardized response protocols
and coordinated outbreak response support, meaning integrated deployment during declared emergencies.
Congress has already confirmed that the WHO’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic “was an abject failure” and that the WHO’s “newest effort to solve the problems exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic — via a “Pandemic Treaty” — may harm the United States.”
This means Washington’s decision comes despite federal findings that the WHO mismanaged the last pandemic and is advancing new agreements that could expand its influence over future responses.
You can contact Gov. Ferguson’s office here to voice your opposition to Washington’s integration into a WHO-linked outbreak surveillance and response system and demand accountability for aligning state public health infrastructure with failed global coordination mechanisms. (See link for article)
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**Comment**
Take away: states are bypassing the federal government’s move to remain sovereign and not under the umbrella of unelected globalists like the international WHO; however, it’s all clear as mud as there still remains a legal path for U.S./WHO collaboration due to Congress authorizing up to 60 U.S. Public Health Service employees assigned to work through and with WHO-funded programs, alongside USAID and UNICEF—entities closely integrated with the same global health governance framework.
In global health policy, “child survival activities” is a broad WHO umbrella that routinely includes vaccination campaigns, disease surveillance, outbreak response, and health-system operations, meaning the statute authorizes U.S. personnel to work inside WHO-funded public-health infrastructure—not narrow, child-only care—despite the formal withdrawal.
Congress also enacted legislation allocating at least $5.5 billion in taxpayer funding to finance pandemic and outbreak preparedness in fiscal year 2026—despite no declared pandemic and no formal emergency authorization.
The funding is contained in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (H.R. 7148), which Trump signed into law on February 3, 2026, after the bill passed both chambers of Congress and was presented to the White House earlier that day. Source
Influenza is the only purported virus explicitly named in the statute.
All of this should feel like déjà vu to anyone reading this website, because it’s been done before,like a bad movie script that keeps being recycled, and now states are making global tyranny even easier to achieve!
The same architects of the last plandemic are priming the world for the next one — the inevitable consequence of a world that never held them accountable.
A German court has ordered BioNTech to hand over 32 internal safety, toxicity, and manufacturing records on ‘Comirnaty’ COVID injection affirming injured patients’ right to access data, forcing disclosure. While this is not a final liability ruling, the decision affirms that individuals claiming harm are entitled to access manufacturer’s data.
Pfizer’s former chief toxicologist admits at the German COVID inquiry that the shots ‘should never have been approved.’
According to author and sociology professor Evelyn L. Bush, Ph.D., governments and media created a new pariah class: the unvaccinated. Dr. Bush shows in her new downloadable book that detrimental, fear-driven policies divided families, workplaces, and communities during the COVID era.
History shows that stigma is rarely accidental — and its consequences are far-reaching and are never temporary.
Pushing back against the tyranny, a Minnesota bill moves to ban medical discrimination by employers, hospitals, governments, and businesses against people for refusing vaccines, RNA, and gene-based products. The bill shifts legal power away from institutions and back to individuals through enforceable protections and financial liability for violations.
The legislation includes a supremacy clause stating:
“the provisions of this section prevail over any conflicting provisions in general law”
Which means the protections would take precedence over existing laws that conflict with its provisions, unless explicitly exempted.
The bill also includes not only religious exemptions but personal, ethical, or philosophical objections.
What the bill lacks; however, is prohibiting institutions from requiring medical interventions in the first place and it only includes those 18 years of age or older – leaving school, daycare, and pediatric intervention policies outside the bill’s scope. The bill also does not explicitly address whether its protections apply during a public health emergency or executive health orders.
Tennessee lawmakers have also moved to ban forced vaccination and other medical treatments. They, however, have made it clear with the Constitutional amendment that this holds true even during emergencies.
Former Cleveland Clinic Medical Director Dr. Daniel Neides fights back tears, apologizing to all his ‘vaccinated’ patients because he didn’t provide informed consent. He shares that the only thing doctors are taught about vaccines is to memorize the vaccine schedule in order to pass the medical exam.
Dr. Kelly Victory stated the entire COVID debacle could not have occurred…
“If all physicians had stood shoulder to shoulder with me when I was… suffering the slings and arrows very early on and spoken the truth, this would not have happened. It was precisely because they got physicians on board and willing to continue this that it happened.”
He’s not alone.Go here to watch a video showing doctor after doctor expressing the limited training they receive about ‘vaccines,’ yet despite appropriate training and information on potential side-effects and injury, doctors often use wellness visits to coerce vaccination.
CDC ‘vaccine’ authors destroyed evidence of harm of the MMR and that African-American males who receive the vaccine before age 36 months are at increased risk for autism.
infant deaths due to vaccines are never listed on death certificates but as SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) due to the lack of ICD codes sanctioned by the CDC and WHO. SIDS remains the leading cause of death among infants in the U.S. and there’s a century of evidence that vaccines cause SIDS.
the CDC manipulated VAERS data by arbitrarily excluding thousands of reports and by comparing deaths after ‘vaccination’ to deaths during a pandemic – a meaningless distortion. They should have compared vaxxed to unvaxxed.
the COVID gene therapy injections were developed by the U.S. military and are called ‘countermeasures,’ and were ordered as ‘prototypes.’
that receiving kickbacks for vaccinating patients is fraudulent with one doctor stating she could have made $1.5 MILLION if she would have ‘vaccinated’ her 6,000 patients for COVID.
Dr. Joseph Varon also recently wrote a paper titled: When War Teaches Medicine, demonstrating that while good innovations are sometimes forged in crisis, history is replete with examples that innovation can also occur under evil conditions where inhuman treatments and experimentation are state sanctioned, systematic, and organized. This was experienced during the COVID era and many paid the ultimate price. The deadly hospital protocols alone caused nearly half a million excess deaths in 2020. Nurses have formed their own network due to the brutally inhumane hospital protocols.
History records medical atrocities such as experiments on prisoners, often without anesthesia, consent or even scientific justification, committed during WWII under the Nazi regime. In the U.S., the Tuskegee Syphilis study that spanned 4 decades deliberately left African-American men with syphilis untreated even when effective therapy became available. Then, there’s the recently declassified documents linking Lyme disease to a bioweaponization program where ticks were stuffed with different pathogens and then purposely distributed via airplane.
The recent COVID era allowed ALL to experience this type of institutionalized evil. Certain individuals were told they were ‘essential,’ and allowed to function, work, get a paycheck, and experience privileges that the ‘non-essential’ people were not. The unvaccinated were blamed for a ‘pandemic’ that wasn’t any worse than a normal flu season. Even German media admits the unvaxxed are ‘winners’ and has demanded the government to apologize for its false claims.
It was amazing to see so many people accept fear-based propaganda without a shred of scientific logic and without pause, despite all the years of being bombarded with education and talk of racism, sexism, and other isms. Somehow, it became acceptable to mistreat those who questioned the tyranny and/or didn’t swallow the propaganda.
The good news: ‘vaccine’ skepticism in the U.S. is now widespread according to a Politico Poll.
Also, many researchers are taking it upon themselves to comb through studies to point out the many flaws used to take away our freedoms and to push a narrative. The word is out: public health, research and scientific journals are bought out and not to be trusted at face value. Researchers are also following the money and showing the web of deceit behind the curtain that’s being used to control the public.
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