Breitbart.com reports: “Two Chinese nationals have been charged with conspiracy, fraud, and smuggling a deadly bio pathogen into the United States.

United States Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr. announced that 33-year-old Yunqing Jian and 34-year-old Zunyong Liu, both citizens of the People’s Republic of China, were arrested on various conspiracy charges, which included smuggling ‘a fungus called Fusarium graminearum, which scientific literature classifies as a potential agroterrorism weapon.’ The Justice Department said in a press release:

The FBI arrested Jian in connection with allegations related to Jian’s and Liu’s smuggling into America a fungus called Fusarium graminearum, which scientific literature classifies as a potential agroterrorism weapon. This noxious fungus causes ‘head blight,’ a disease of wheat, barley, maize, and rice, and is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year. Fusarium graminearum’s toxins cause vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive defects in humans and livestock…”