About a week ago, we published an episode on this program detailing how two Chinese nationals—a researcher at the University of Michigan and her boyfriend—were caught by the FBI attempting to smuggle a dangerous pathogen into the United States. This was a deadly fungus that could be used to target crops.

We ended that episode by considering out loud: How many other Chinese researchers here in the United States are possibly doing the same thing?

Within a week, another Chinese researcher, who was also from the University of Michigan, was caught by federal authorities for attempting to smuggle biological material. This time it wasn’t a fungus. It was a type of roundworm.

The concerning part of it was that this Chinese researcher came from Wuhan, China.

Let’s go through the details together.