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Chinese researcher on J-1 visa pleads guilty to smuggling E. coli bacteria into US disguised as women’s underwear

A Chinese researcher working in the United States has pleaded guilty to smuggling E. coli into the country.

32-year-old Youhuang Xiang, a Chinese national and former postdoctoral researcher on a J-1 visa at Indiana University, was sentenced to more than four months in prison after admitting to concealing bacterial DNA in a shipment sent from China.

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