E. Coli Smuggling Case: Chinese researcher on J-1 visa pleads guilty to smuggling E. coli bacteria into US disguised as women’s underwear
A Chinese researcher working in the United States has pleaded guilty to smuggling E. coli into the country. 32-year-old Youhuang Xiang, a Chinese national and former postdoctoral researcher on a J-1 visa at Indiana University, was sentenced to more than four months in prison after admitting to concealing bacterial DNA in a shipment sent from…