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title: NIH Monkeypox Smuggling Release
description: "Committee release on NIH Rocky Mountain Labs virologists charged with attempting to smuggle monkeypox samples into the U.S., plus EcoHealth Alliance and NIH correspondence."
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Committee release on NIH Rocky Mountain Labs virologists charged with attempting to smuggle monkeypox samples into the U.S., plus EcoHealth Alliance and NIH correspondence.

# Extraction summary

- **Pages:** 19
- **Documents extracted:** 18 (emails 17, chat messages 0, diary entries 0)
- **Date range of content:** 2011-09-16T15:36:00 to 2024-04-25T13:27:24
- **Pages recovered by OCR:** 7
- **Pages still without usable text:** 0
- **SHA-256:** `c485cb09883c96f32c539130bad0d24fda92ee30e7b9e6ab0f5c9ed901bea4bc`

# Principal figures

* [Vincent Munster](/people/vincent-munster.md) - 11 documents
* [Robert Fischer](/people/robert-fischer.md) - 3 documents
* Amy C Sims - 2 documents
* Heinrich Feldmann - 2 documents
* Jon Epstein - 2 documents
* Ken Cameron - 2 documents
* Patricia Reed - 2 documents
* Raina K. Plowright - 2 documents
* [Ralph S. Baric](/people/ralph-s-baric.md) - 2 documents
* Sara LaTrielle - 2 documents
* Yinda Kwe Claude - 2 documents
* Alan - 1 documents

# Dominant topics

* [Monkeypox sample smuggling case](/topics/monkeypox-smuggling.md) - 10 documents
* [Intelligence community assessments](/topics/intelligence-community.md) - 6 documents
* [EcoHealth Alliance funding and grants](/topics/ecohealth-funding.md) - 4 documents
* [Biosafety and biosecurity](/topics/biosafety.md) - 2 documents
* [Congressional oversight](/topics/congressional-oversight.md) - 1 documents
* [Furin cleavage site and molecular features](/topics/molecular-features.md) - 1 documents
* [Public comments and policy process](/topics/public-comments-policy.md) - 1 documents