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The Next #Pandemic Starts Here: Why the charges against an #NIH #virologist expose the [DELIBERATE?] FAILURE of Gain-Of-Function research. Federal prosecutors have charged senior NIH virologist Vincent Munster (originally from the Netherlands) and his junior colleague Claude Kwe (Cameroon) with **conspiracy to smuggle biological materials** into the United States and with **making false statements to federal authorities** The real story is that one of the federal government’s most PROMINENT #virus hunters now finds himself at the center of a #criminal investigation, while #Congress continues to uncover evidence that the institutions responsible for overseeing dangerous #pathogen research learned almost NOTHING from COVID. The issue is that one branch of the federal government looked at this research direction and saw DANGER, while another branch FUNDED and ENCOURAGED the SAME research ecosystem. House investigators revealed that NIAID had approved or considered experiments involving the transfer of genes between different clades of mpox virus. Congressional investigators, including Senator Rand Paul and members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, raised concerns that the proposed work could combine characteristics of more virulent and more transmissible strains. These experiments crossed into gain-of-function territory and represented exactly the type of research that Americans had been assured was subject to strict controls. https://malone.news/p/the-next-pandemic-starts-here