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Chinese researcher in alleged plot to smuggle crop-killing fungus into US will remain in custody while seeking private counsel
The Chinese researcher accused of helping smuggle a potentially devastating crop-killing fungus into the US will remain in ...
Chinese UM student accused of smuggling biological pathogen into U.S. to remain in detention for now
Yunqing Jian, 33, allegedly tried to bring Fusarium graminearum into the U.S., a fungus that federal prosecutors allege could ...
A Chinese couple was arrested at an airport for smuggling a fungus, considered a biological pathogen, hidden in a wad of tissues
Zunyong Liu was coming to the U.S. to visit his girlfriend, Yunqing Jian, a researcher at the University of Michigan, where ...
Chinese researchers’ alleged plot to smuggle crop-killing fungus into US is an ‘attack on US food supply’: feds
If the pathogen was manipulated to become resistant to treatment or to spread more easily, it could have the potential to ...
Chinese official claims no knowledge of fungus situation, says China requires citizens ‘abide by local laws’
"I don't know the specific situation, but I would like to emphasize that the Chinese government has always required overseas ...