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FROM
Jackie Salo, NY Post
October 24, 2021
Dr. Anthony Fauci is facing calls from a bipartisan group of legislators
to respond to allegations that his National Institutes of Health division
provided a grant to a lab in Tunisia to torture and kill dozens of beagle
puppies for twisted scientific experiments.
In a letter to the director of the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and 23 colleagues addressed
their “grave concerns about reports of costly, cruel, and unnecessary
taxpayer-funded experiments on dogs.”
“According to documents obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by
taxpayer watchdog group White Coat Waste Project, and subsequent media
coverage from October 2018 until February 2019, NIAID spent $1.68 million in
taxpayer funds on drug tests involving 44 beagle puppies,” the Thursday
letter reads.
The White Coat Waste Project report claimed that the researchers locked the
dogs in cages with hungry sandflies so that the insects could eat them
alive.
Some of the pooches were also allegedly injected with disease-causing
parasites.
“The commissioned tests involved injecting and force-feeding the puppies an
experimental drug for several weeks, before killing and dissecting them,”
lawmakers wrote.
The bipartisan group also raised concerns about allegations that
scientists slit dogs’ vocal cords so that they wouldn’t bark during the
experiments.
“This cruel procedure — which is opposed with rare exceptions by the
American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Animal Hospital
Association, and others — seems to have been performed so that experimenters
would not have to listen to the pained cries of the beagle puppies. This is
a reprehensible misuse of taxpayer funds,” the letter said.
In addition to Mace, the letter was signed by Reps. Cindy Axne (D-Iowa), Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.), Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), Rick Crawford (R-Ark.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Scott Franklin (R-Fla.) and Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), among others.
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