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Another Chinese Researcher Arrested for Smuggling Biologics Into the US
Manage episode 489592769 series 3327857
About a week ago, we published an episode on this program detailing how two Chinese nationals—a researcher at the University of Michigan and her boyfriend—were caught by the FBI attempting to smuggle a dangerous pathogen into the United States. This was a deadly fungus that could be used to target crops.
We ended that episode by considering out loud: How many other Chinese researchers here in the United States are possibly doing the same thing?
Within a week, another Chinese researcher, who was also from the University of Michigan, was caught by federal authorities for attempting to smuggle biological material. This time it wasn’t a fungus. It was a type of roundworm.
The concerning part of it was that this Chinese researcher came from Wuhan, China.
Let’s go through the details together.
290 episodes
Manage episode 489592769 series 3327857
About a week ago, we published an episode on this program detailing how two Chinese nationals—a researcher at the University of Michigan and her boyfriend—were caught by the FBI attempting to smuggle a dangerous pathogen into the United States. This was a deadly fungus that could be used to target crops.
We ended that episode by considering out loud: How many other Chinese researchers here in the United States are possibly doing the same thing?
Within a week, another Chinese researcher, who was also from the University of Michigan, was caught by federal authorities for attempting to smuggle biological material. This time it wasn’t a fungus. It was a type of roundworm.
The concerning part of it was that this Chinese researcher came from Wuhan, China.
Let’s go through the details together.
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