The National Institutes of Health laboratory in Montana is embroiled in controversy as two of its researchers have been charged by federal law enforcement with conspiracy to smuggle deactivated monkeypox virus into the United States.
A Department of Justice press release names Dutch national Vincent Munster (53) and Cameroonian national Claude Kwe (38) as violating the law after they smuggled “monkeypox into the United States” and gave “false statements to federal law enforcement.” Munster is the Chief of the Virus Ecology Section at Rocky Mountain Laboratory’s Laboratory of Virology, and Kwe works under him as a research fellow.
