Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) already poses a major threat to U.S. agriculture, causing nearly $3 billion in damage since the 1990s, Cornell University Kerik Cox told Newsweek. Cox said that "strains of Fusarium graminearum can vary widely in aggressiveness."

A couple smuggled a fungus into Detroit Metro Airport that’s responsible for billions of dollars’ worth of damage and major health defects in humans and animals, federal officials said. They allegedly planned to work on it at a University of Michigan lab.

FBI Director Kash Patel has claimed that two Chinese nationals have been arrested for smuggling Fusarium Graminearum to the United States.