{"id":90177,"date":"2026-06-03T08:48:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90177"},"modified":"2026-06-03T08:48:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:48:04","slug":"two-men-charged-with-trying-to-smuggle-vials-of-mpox-virus-into-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/03\/two-men-charged-with-trying-to-smuggle-vials-of-mpox-virus-into-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men charged with trying to smuggle vials of mpox virus into the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA24HVuh.img?w=768&h=512&m=6\" alt=\"This colorized electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2024 shows Mpox virus particles, orange, found within infected cells, green. (NIAID via AP, File) (Local Library)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two scientists employed at a US government laboratory have been charged with illegally importing vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa, and subsequently lying to investigators\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/two-men-charged-with-trying-to-smuggle-vials-of-mpox-virus-into-the-us\/ar-AA24GD9U?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a1fdd2d98514ac39413ca61e96fc666&cvpid=f1f19e3fefd246c8fb235684ec8f8f45&ei=7\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Two scientists employed at a US government laboratory have been charged with illegally importing vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Mpox-Vaccines.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90178,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90177\/revisions\/90178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}