--- type: Topic title: Monkeypox sample smuggling case description: The Rocky Mountain Laboratories monkeypox sample importation case. tags: - topic - covid-19 document_count: 75 sources: - { id: cbp_release, resource: /sources/cbp-release.md, title: CBP Release Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } - { id: daszak_cbp, resource: /sources/daszak-cbp.md, title: Daszak CBP Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-17 } - { id: diary_prequel, resource: /sources/diary-prequel.md, title: Diary Prequel Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-27 } - { id: fauci_diary, resource: /sources/fauci-diary.md, title: Tony's Diary Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-24 } - { id: gates, resource: /sources/gates.md, title: Gates Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-31 } - { id: monkeypox_release, resource: /sources/monkeypox-release.md, title: NIH Monkeypox Smuggling Release, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-06-05 } - { id: reading_room, resource: /sources/reading-room.md, title: Reading Room Production, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } - { id: slack_pm, resource: /sources/slack-pm.md, title: Slack / Private Message Drop, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } generated: { by: randpaul-corpus-pipeline/1.0, at: "2026-08-01T12:42:27Z" } status: stable --- The Rocky Mountain Laboratories monkeypox sample importation case. Tagged on **75** documents. # Principal voices * [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) - 37 documents * [Kevin C. O Connor, D.o., Faafp Physician TO THE President](/people/kevin-c-o-connor-d-o-faafp-physician-to-the-president.md) - 4 documents * [Vincent Munster](/people/vincent-munster.md) - 4 documents * [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md) - 3 documents * Yinda Kwe Claude - 2 documents * Amy C Sims - 1 documents * Jon Epstein - 1 documents * Kevin C. O°connor, D.o., Faafp Physiclan TO THE President - 1 documents * Qibin Geng Edu) - 1 documents * [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md) - 1 documents # Statement timeline Attributed statements in chronological order. Each is quoted verbatim and cited to its page. * **2004-08-11** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "August 11, 2004 - Met at EEOB Room 283 with Carol Kuntz and Bruce Miller and Dorothy.... to discuss tentative plans to determine whether IL-4 gene inserted into monkeypox would have the same effect as IL-4 inserted into mousepox virus, i.e. it would suppress…" [^diary_prequel] * **2021-12-02** — [Vincent Munster](/people/vincent-munster.md) (instructs): "It is absolutely critical that NIH and US researchers get access to the omicron variant ASAP Let me know if there are any further questions, Cheers, Vincent Munster, PhD Chief Virus Ecology Section Rocky Mountain Laboratories NIAID/NIH 1.Z0V>" [^monkeypox_release] * **2022-05-31** — [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md) (reports): "Unrelated, but I note that monkeypox is ranked 24th on the risk list, below rabies for which human-to-human transmission has never been reported." [^slack_pm] * **2022-06-03** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Secretary Becerra wanted to speak to me to get my advice about whether we were doing all we can as a department to address the emerging monkeypox challenge." [^fauci_diary] * **2022-06-03** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "The secretary asked me what I thought the potential vulnerabilities were and I emphasized the fact that we cannot accept the CDC saying that they are the only ones that can do a test for monkeypox." [^fauci_diary] * **2022-06-09** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "June 9, 2022 Global USA The big discussion items over the past 24 hours have been the growing number of cases of monkeypox which at last count is over 1400 globally and over 70 in the United States." [^fauci_diary] * **2022-07-28** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "Monkeypox: Global.health: 20,671 confirmed MPX cases, 42 suspected in 84 non-endemic countries. 4600 in USA. 2 children infected in USA from mother who had sex with bisexual man The Montreal Gazette concerning my comments (virtually at the UNAIDS report…" [^fauci_diary] * **2022-07-28** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "President Joe Biden, said the UNAIDS report is "a reminder that the global plague" of HIV/AIDS "continues to rage," even though much of our attention diverted to the global pandemic of COVID and now, monkeypox." [^fauci_diary] * **2022-07-28** — [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) (asserts): "The priority must be to )fda.hhs.gov>; Dawn.Oconnell@hhs.gov>; Levine, Rachel YASH)