A Chinese researcher and visa holder has been charged with smuggling E. coli into the United States and lying to Customs and Border Protection about it, FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Friday.
The researcher was identified as Youhuang Xiang, who was a postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University Bloomington. His name appears to have been scrubbed from the university’s webpage dedicated to research associates and postdoctoral researchers.
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