Gain-of-function research labs in the US: A pattern of deception and systemic failure
By Rhoda Wilson on June 2, 2026
Dr. Vincent Munster, a senior scientist at an NIH laboratory in Montana, is under an FBI criminal investigation for allegedly attempting to smuggle dozens of vials of pathogen samples from the Democratic Republic of Congo into the United States in January 2026.
At the same time, a laboratory in Colorado has confirmed a spate of 50 safety control issues between 2020 and 2023.
These two cases, unfolding hundreds of miles apart, lay bare a disturbing pattern.
Dr. Vincent Munster is a senior virologist at the National Institutes of Health’s (“NIH’s”) Rocky Mountain Laboratories with a background in studying coronaviruses, monkeypox, Ebola and other high-risk pathogens.
“[Rocky Mountain Laboratories] has long drawn concern for both the nature of its research and safety protocols, especially its potential role in the release of SARS-CoV-2 as a ‘partner’ in the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s 2018 DEFUSE project to create a chimeric coronavirus,” The Tennessee Star notes.
Although details have not been released as to what the vials contained that Dr. Munster and his colleague Claude Kwe Yinda were attempting to smuggle into the US, The Disinformation Chronicle reported that the samples included monkeypox (now called Mpox) virus, and White Coat Waste reported that, according to a whistle-blower, they contained viral haemorrhagic fever samples.
Viral haemorrhagic fevers (“VHFs”) are a diverse group of infectious diseases caused by several distinct families of RNA viruses. Examples of viruses classified within these families are Ebola virus, Marburg virus, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus, Hantaviruses, Yellow fever virus and Dengue virus.
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