Two NIH scientists in Montana charged with ‘smuggling’ virus

By: Micah Drew

Outlets: Daily Montanan

Published: June 8, 2026

Words: 1,167

Last Updated: 2 days, 10 hours ago

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Two scientists with a federal infectious disease research institute in Hamilton are accused of smuggling samples of monkeypox, or “Mpox,” into the United States and lying to law enforcement.

Vincent Munster, chief of the Virus Ecology unit in the Laboratory of Virology at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, and his research fellow Claude Kwe face maximum sentences of five years in prison for allegedly failing to properly document samples of the infectious disease …

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