{"id":90250,"date":"2026-06-04T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90250"},"modified":"2026-06-04T06:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:18:00","slug":"scientists-at-nih-charged-with-attempting-to-smuggle-highly-contagious-pathogens-from-africa-into-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/04\/scientists-at-nih-charged-with-attempting-to-smuggle-highly-contagious-pathogens-from-africa-into-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists at NIH charged with attempting to smuggle highly contagious pathogens from Africa into 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\/AA24NyP6.img?w=634&h=365&m=6\" alt=\"Rocky Mountain Laboratories, run by the National Institutes of Health, is shown above\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two top US government scientists have been charged with smuggling vials of mpox into the country \u2013 and then allegedly lying about it when questioned by officials. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/health-news\/scientists-at-nih-charged-with-attempting-to-smuggle-highly-contagious-pathogens-from-africa-into-us\/ar-AA24Nieq?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a21179f30724ed9ac7c77c8d38769c7&ei=23\">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 top US government scientists have been charged with smuggling vials of mpox into the country \u2013 and then allegedly lying about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/vincent-munster-claude-kwe-mpox-nih.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90250","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=90250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90252,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90250\/revisions\/90252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}