Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told Newsmax on Wednesday he was uncertain about the motives of a Chinese researcher arrested on suspicion of smuggling roundworms into the United States.
According to the Department of Justice, Chengxuan Han was charged on Monday after admitting to investigators she had sent four packages from Wuhan, China, containing “biological material related to round worms” to the University of Michigan.
The charges follow shortly after DOJ charged two other Chinese researchers at the University of Michigan last week in connection with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S.
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