Doctor. Anthony Fauci Under fire over claims that his division of the National Institutes of Health sent a $375,800 grant to a lab Tunisia Who locked beagle puppies in cages so that sand flies could eat the dogs alive.
The White Coat Vest Project claims that the Fauci-backed researchers spent several weeks injecting the dogs with an experimental drug before killing and dissecting them.
The report alleges that 44 puppies were kept in cages for nine consecutive days and used as bait to attract infectious sand flies.
Researchers are also accused of removing the vocal cords of dogs so that they can function without ‘barking incessantly’. This was done with funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, of which Fauci has been director since 1984.
Led by Rep. Nancy Mays (R-SC), a group of 24 bipartisan legislators are demanding answers and have called the experiments “brutal” and “blasphemous misuse of taxpayers’ money”.
The White Coat Vest Project claims that Fauci’s researchers spent several weeks injecting the dogs with an experimental drug before killing and dissecting them.
The report alleges that 44 puppies were kept in cages for nine consecutive days and used as bait to attract infectious sand flies.
Researchers are also accused of removing the vocal cords of dogs so that they can function without ‘barking incessantly’.
According to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by taxpayer watchdog group White Coat West Project, and subsequent media coverage, from October 2018 to February 2019, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) collected taxpayer funds. Spent $1.68 million in Drug testing involving 44 Beagle puppies,’ MPs’ letter reads.
That large amount includes an extensive experiment in which beagles were force-fed with drugs before being killed and dismembered.
‘However the documents state that the direct purpose of this study was to ‘provide data of appropriate quality and integrity to support application to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other regulatory agencies,’ the FDA recently said. That it doesn’t mandate that human drugs be studied in dogs.
The group of lawmakers is asking Fauci and his researchers to respond to the following by November 19:
- How many drug trials involving dogs have been funded by the NIAID since January 2018? How much taxpayer money has been spent on this test?
- Since the Food and Drug Administration has explicitly stated that it does not require dog testing for new drugs, why does the NIAID continue to test dogs?
- What has NIAID done to ascertain the use of non-canine and non-animal alternatives to meet FDA data requirements?
- Has the NIAID ever made a dog available for adoption after the conclusion of an experiment or trial? If yes, how many? If yes, why not?
- Why does the NIAID contract for umbilical cords when they appear to be scientifically and medically unnecessary? What is the average cost for each cordectomy?
A group of 24 bipartisan legislators are demanding answers and have called the experiments “brutal” and “blasphemous misuse of taxpayers’ money”.
Fauci, the NIAID and the White Coat Vest Project did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com.
However, the nonprofit issued the following statement America is changing:
‘Our investigators point out that Fauci’s NIH division shipped part of a $375,800 grant to drug beagles in Tunisia and locked their heads in trap cages filled with hungry sand flies so the insects could eat them alive.
‘They caged solitary beagles in the desert for nine nights in a row so that they could be used as bait to attract infectious sand flies.’
The animal testing charges come after Fauci was accused of lying to Congress, claiming the US did not fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab blamed for creating COVID.
National Institutes of Health recruitment on wednesday Winning funding for function research on bat coronaviruses in the Wuhan laboratory, despite Dr. Fauci’s denial to Congress that no such research has been done.
entry one. came in Letter addressed Kentucky Congressman James Comer, including NIH principal deputy director Lawrence A. Tabak referred to a ‘limited experiment’ conducted to test whether ‘spike proteins from naturally occurring BAT coronaviruses are spreading’ China were able to bind to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model in the Wuhan lab.
According to Tabak, mice infected with the modified bat virus became ‘sick’ compared to mice infected with the unmodified bat virus.
Lawmakers expect Fauci (pictured) to answer their questions by November 19
By never using the term, Tabak essentially affirms the benefits of function research, which looks at both communicable disease between animals and humans, and for scientists to study it as a means of changing organisms and diseases. There’s a way they can be deadly or more transmissible. Chinese laboratory despite Dr. Fauci’s persistent denials.
The letter blamed the US non-profit EcoHealth Alliance, which used NIH money to fund research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, for not being transparent about the kind of research they were conducting.
“Ecohealth failed to report this finding promptly, as required by the terms of the grant,” Tabak wrote in his letter. ‘EcoHealth is being informed that they have five days from today to submit any and all unpublished data from the experiments and work performed under this award to the NIH.’
Fauci has testified before Congress on multiple occasions that US taxpayers never funded ‘gain of function’ research in China – which would make a virus more contagious or deadly.
Fauci in May testified That the NIH ‘never has benefited from function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and does not now fund.’
However, in September, The Intercept revealed that it had received 900 pages of documents detailing the research work of the EcoHealth Alliance in Wuhan, China.
The files showed that in 2014, the National Health Institute approved a five-year annual grant of $666,000 per year ($3.3 million) for five years to the EcoHealth Alliance, an American research organization. coronavirus.
NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence A. Tabak acknowledges funding of gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan laboratory
The Wuhan Institute of Virology has been highlighted as a possible source of COVID-19. It received $599,000 in US government money from the EcoHealth Alliance for its study on coronaviruses in bats
The EcoHealth Alliance acknowledged in its proposal to the NIH that the risks involved were among employees “highest risk of exposure to SARS or other CoVs,” who could then take it out of the lab.
The NIH gave him the money anyway — something Fauci was forced to admit earlier when testifying before Congress in May of this year. The EcoHealth Alliance then donated $599,000 to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The approval notice for the grant is 528 pages long. It describes how EcoAlliance will receive annual payments totaling $3.3 million over five years.
Funding was renewed in 2019, but was cut abruptly in April 2020, once COVID-19 spread around the world.
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