House Republicans threaten subpoena over details of NIH mpox research

Re­pub­li­cans on the House En­er­gy and Com­merce Com­mit­tee are de­mand­ing that the NIH hand over more de­tails on its mpox re­search, ac­cord­ing to a let­ter sent Fri­day to act­ing NIH Di­rec­tor Lawrence Tabak.

The law­mak­ers are threat­en­ing to sub­poe­na Tabak if he doesn’t pro­duce the doc­u­ments by Oct. 31. The law­mak­ers said they pre­vi­ous­ly had asked for de­tails from the NIH on re­search led by Bernard Moss at the NIH’s Na­tion­al In­sti­tute of Al­ler­gy and In­fec­tious Dis­eases (for­mer­ly led by An­tho­ny Fau­ci), which sought to in­crease knowl­edge on the poxvirus’ patho­gen­e­sis and im­mu­ni­ty.

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