US recently charged Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, for attempting to smuggle Fusarium graminearum, a fungus that ...

The pathogen is known as Fusarium graminearum, which can attack wheat, barley, maize and rice and sicken livestock and people ...

Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu are charged with conspiracy, smuggling, making false statements and visa fraud for allegedly ...

Charges against Jian Yunqing and Liu Zunyong include conspiracy, smuggling ‘dangerous biological pathogen’ into US and visa ...

The toxic fungus may be a legitimate research subject, but they have handed Washington the perfect excuse to hype up the ...

According to the FBI, Liu had small baggies of the fungus stashed in his backpack when he flew to the US last year. After ...

Farmers in the United States have been battling for over a decade against the fungus Fusarium Graminearum affecting the crops ...

A leading expert on China has sounded a grim health warning. Gordon G Chang, America’s top expert on Chinese affairs, said ...

Gordon G Chang, an expert on Chinese affairs, warned that the plot is more than a stray biological smuggling case—it’s part ...

Jian, 33, and Liu, 34, are accused of importing Fusarium graminearum, a fungus that causes “head blight”—a disease that ...

Investigators revealed that the couple had previously studied the fungus in China, raising alarms over potential biosecurity ...