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America's expert on China says fungus smuggling case ‘worse than Covid’, urges US govt to ‘sever relations’
According to the FBI, Liu had small baggies of the fungus stashed in his backpack when he flew to the US last year. After ...
After ‘agroterror’ fungus is seized in Detroit, lawmaker says Michigan has best plan to blunt CCP influence
Republicans push for the strongest protections nationwide against Chinese influence while Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's inaction ...
'Sever ties with China': US expert warns of worse-than-COVID threat after fungus arrest
Jian, 33, and Liu, 34, are accused of importing Fusarium graminearum, a fungus that causes “head blight”—a disease that ...
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 ...
Chinese bioterror suspects' arrests signal communist country plotting 'something worse' than COVID: expert
After two Chinese "bioterrorism" suspects were arrested this week for allegedly smuggling a toxic, crop-killing fungus into ...
Fungus in "agroterrorism" arrest already widely prevalent in U.S., researcher says
Two Chinese researchers were charged with trying to smuggle strains of a fungus called Fusarium graminearum into the U.S.
Experts doubt FBI’s claim that crop fungus smuggled by Chinese students is a threat
A biological sample that a Chinese researcher was accused of smuggling into the United States and that prosecutors cast as a ...
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Fugitive Fungus: Fungus Frenzy or False Alarm?
A Chinese researcher is accused of smuggling a common fungus, Fusarium graminearum, into the U.S., where it has existed for ...