A Department of Justice monkeypox-smuggling case involving NIH researchers highlights broader concerns about China’s biological warfare capabilities, military-linked biotechnology research, biological smuggling incidents, and the CCP’s use of Military-Civil Fusion to leverage civilian scientific research for potential military applications. On June 2, 2026, the Department of Justice charged two NIH researchers, Vincent Munster, 53, a Dutch national and Chief of the Virus Ecology Section at NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Montana, and Claude Kwe, 38, a Cameroonian research fellow, with conspiracy to smuggle monkeypox virus into the United States and making false statements to federal law enforcement. While Munster…