DETROIT, May 23, 2025 ~ Two people were charged on Tuesday over an incident at the Detroit Metro Airport involving the smuggling of a fungus that can potentially cause widespread crop devastation.
Two scientists from China, Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, are accused of smuggling samples of the toxic fungus Fusarium graminearum into the U.S. Jian allegedly tried to smuggle the samples into the country last year from China to bring to his girlfriend Liu, a research fellow at the Molecular Plant-Microbe Interaction Laboratory at the University of Michigan.
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