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The HHS inspector general has opened a review of how NIH vets scientists at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana, a high-containment lab that works with high-risk pathogens. The project, announced Oct. 15, follows Sen. Tim Sheehy's call for an investigation ("We don't want Montana to be the next Wuhan") and charges against two of the lab's scientists over deactivated mpox samples. Here's what the review covers.