Two scientists at a U.S. government lab have been charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa without permits and lying about it to investigators. The case against Vincent Munster and Claude Kwe was unsealed in federal court in Detroit. The FBI says Munster and Kwe passed through the Detroit-area airport in January after a trip to the Republic of Congo and didn’t disclose what they were carrying. They work at a federal lab in Montana. Mpox can cause serious illness and has killed thousands of people in Congo, a vast region in central Africa.