Vials Used In Ebola Research Smuggled Into US – Scientist Arrested
national | 5/14/2009 | 2 comments
A Canadian scientist has been arrested for smuggling 22 vials stolen from Canada’s National Microbiology Lab, used in Ebola and HIV research, into the United States, Canadian and US officials said Wednesday.
Konan Michel Yao, 42, “was taken into custody” while crossing the border from Manitoba province into the western US state of North Dakota on May 5, said a spokeswoman for the Public Health Agency of Canada, which operates the lab.
Category: Incident Reports
If it was not a threat,then why was he trying to smuggle it in?
Those dastardly Canadians… I guess there’s no monopoly on dumb people after all…