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Undeclared Vials and Chinese Ties | Duluth News
In November 2018, U.S. Customs intercepted a courier at Detroit Metro Airport carrying vials of the deadly porcine epidemic diarrhea virus and coronavirus antibodies, allegedly destined for a University of Minnesota researcher with ties to China’s military medical academy. This wasn’t an isolated case—just months earlier, a U of M student offered to ship live virus to an American scientist, and six months before that, a Wuhan virologist sought to send antibodies back to China, though the U.S. researcher warned against it. The Minnesota researcher, funded by the NIH, has collaborators with…
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