24 Lawmakers Ask Fauci About ‘Cruel’ Dog Experiments Under NIAID

A bipartisan radical of lawmakers are demanding answers from top infectious illness adept Anthony Fauci implicit reports that an institute nether his enactment funded “cruel” cause toxicity experiments successful dogs.

Fauci is the manager of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a part nether the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Documents showed that NIAID spent $1.68 million successful payer funds for carnal experimentation. The tests were conducted between October 2018 and February 2019 at SRI International, a research radical headquartered successful Menlo Park, California.

The experimentation progressive injecting and force-feeding 44 beagle puppies betwixt six and 8 months aged with an experimental cause for respective weeks, earlier sidesplitting and dissecting them. There was besides experimentation connected mice.

The documents (pdf) were obtained via a Freedom of Information Act petition by the White Coat Waste Project, a nonprofit government watchdog. The watchdog said that this marks the 4th experimentation connected beagles funded by NIAID that it has been capable to uncover.

The House members, led by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), called the experimentation “unnecessary” successful their missive to Fauci (pdf) connected Oct. 21.

“While documents authorities that the ostensible intent of this survey was to ‘provide information of suitable prime and integrity to enactment the exertion to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and different regulatory agencies,’ the FDA itself has recently stated that it ‘does not mandate that quality drugs beryllium studied successful dogs,'” they told Fauci.

Procedure Stops Dogs From Barking

The lawmakers besides expressed fearfulness astatine a process utilized successful the experiment. They noted that an invoice to NIAID progressive an point called a “cordectomy,” besides known arsenic devocalization oregon de-barking. The process involves slitting a dog’s vocal cords to region its quality to bark, howl, oregon cry.

“This cruel process … seems to person been performed truthful that experimenters would not person to perceive to the painted cries of the beagle puppies,” the 24 legislators said. “This is simply a reprehensible misuse of payer funds.”

They asked Fauci, “Why has NIAID contracted for cordectomies erstwhile they look to beryllium scientifically and medically unnecessary? What is the mean outgo for each cordectomy performed?”

Lawmakers are besides asking however galore cause experiments involving dogs person been funded by NIAID since January 2018 and however overmuch payer funds person been used.

They are besides asking wherefore the NIAID continued to money investigating involving dogs erstwhile the FDA has said specified tests are not required. They added, “What has NIAID done to research the usage of non-canine and non-animal alternatives to conscionable FDA requirements?”

Lawmakers are besides seeking accusation surrounding whether NIAID has ever made the dogs disposable for adoption aft the experiments.

They request the answers by Nov. 9.

The Epoch Times has reached retired to NIAID for comment.

A erstwhile probe by the White Coat Waste Project recovered that NIAID directed $424,455 to an experiment at the University of Georgia successful September 2020 that progressive infecting beagles with parasites to trial an experimental cause connected them, earlier sidesplitting them.