The biological pathogen federal authorities accuse two Chinese nationals of smuggling into the U.S. was not likely an act of ...

Two Chinese researchers are accused of trying to smuggle in the fungus, which causes Fusarium head blight that can wipe out ...

Two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a fungus classified “as a potential agroterrorism weapon” that could ...

The noxious fungus is known to cause "head blight," a disease that impacts barley, rice, wheat and maize and causes economic ...

Officials allege that Liu, who works at a Chinese university where he conducts research on the same pathogen, first lied but ...

Yunqing Jian, 33, allegedly tried to bring Fusarium graminearum into the U.S., a fungus that federal prosecutors allege could ...

Fusarium graminearum is a noxious fungus that can ... who are citizens of the People’s Republic of China, with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the U.S., making false statements and visa ...

Yunqing Jian's detention hearing was moved to June 13 in U.S. District Court in Detroit so she can retain a private attorney.

Two Chinese scientists have been arrested for smuggling a toxic fungus that can be used as an “agroterrorism weapon” into the ...

A Chinese couple are accused of trying to smuggle a crop-destroying fungus into the U.S. The toxic pathogen has been ...

Zunyong Liu was coming to the U.S. to visit his girlfriend, Yunqing Jian, a researcher at the University of Michigan, where ...

Two Chinese researchers face charges for smuggling Fusarium graminearum, a dangerous fungus, into the U.S., raising national ...