The Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH) — underneath Director Jay Bhattacharya’s new management — has shut down the final remaining in-house beagle experimentation lab, successfully ending the federal authorities’s most infamous canine testing program.
NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya confirmed the transfer throughout a Fox & Associates Weekend interview, saying, “We removed all the beagle experiments on NIH campus.”
NEWS: Jay Bhattacharya confirmed the closure of NIH’s LAST in-house beagle lab. For 40 years NIH induced sepsis & hemorrhagic fever in canines. They sourced the beagles, valued for being docile, from a contractor that paid the most important animal welfare positive in historical past. pic.twitter.com/rksyZTOwHx
— Emily Kopp (@emilyakopp) May 4, 2025
In August 2021, The Gateway Pundit reporter Cassandra Fairbanks reported exclusively on Dr. Fauci’s macabre experiments with beagles in Tunisia.
The White Coat Waste Mission, a taxpayer watchdog group, has supplied The Gateway Pundit with new examples of Dr. Anthony Fauci facilitating merciless and pointless taxpayer-funded experimentation on canines — this time in Tunisia.
Paperwork uncovered by the group discovered that the Nationwide Institutes of Well being division, led by Dr. Fauci, shipped a part of a $375,800 grant to a lab in Tunisia to infest beagles with parasites.
The grant cash funded a study published in 2021 that detailed the horror inflicted upon the unfortunate canines.
One of many tortures that the beagles had been subjected to included locking their heads in mesh cages stuffed with contaminated sand flies in order that the parasite-carrying bugs may eat them alive.
Beagles are sometimes used for these assessments due to their mild nature, even towards those that hurt them.
There was a photograph of the check, which is bound to hang-out anybody with a conscience.
In response to their paper, the scientists starved the sand flies with a purpose to be certain they had been hungry sufficient to assault the canines.
“The sand flies had been then allowed to feed on the sedated canines….” the report explains.
The nightmare for canines didn’t cease there. The experimenters locked beagles alone in cages in the midst of the desert, remoted, for 9 consecutive nights, to make use of as bait to draw extra infectious sand flies. There’s additionally a photograph of this horror.
“Fauci’s canine testing debacle is now a global shame. Not solely is Fauci paying for beagle abuse right here at house, however he additionally shipped our tax {dollars} abroad to have beagles eaten alive by bugs in an African lab with no oversight from U.S. authorities. Taxpayers shouldn’t be pressured to foot the invoice for this authorities waste and abuse. Congress should take motion to research the total extent of Fauci’s canine testing debacle,” Mackie Burr, Director of Digital & Grassroots Growth on the White Coat Waste Mission stated.
The article’s “Funding Assertion” confirmed that the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Ailments (NIH) funded the lab in Tunisia.
“EZ and AS obtained funding from the US Nationwide Institutes of Well being,” in accordance with the grant. “EZ” is among the paper’s co-authors, Elyes Zhioua, from the Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia. “AS” is Abhay Satoskar, from Ohio State College.
White Coat Waste Mission identified that on the NIH’s website, Zhioua is listed because the co-PI on the grant together with Satoskar.
White Coat Waste Mission, utilizing the Freedom of Info Act, revealed that Fauci spent $424,000 to fee one other examine during which wholesome beagles got an experimental drug and deliberately infested with flies that carry a disease-causing parasite that impacts people.
The researchers are creating infections in 28 beagles and permitting them to endure for 3 months earlier than being euthanized.
The report from White Coat Waste Mission defined that information present that the canines had been “vocalizing in ache” through the experiments.
The group additionally famous that experimenters admit this investigational drug, “has been extensively examined and confirmed…in numerous animal fashions equivalent to mice…Mongolian gerbils…and rhesus macaques….” That means that this painful torture is totally pointless.
In a letter sent to Fauci in 2021, Congressman Scott Perry and 14 colleagues cited their investigation and demanded solutions in regards to the undertaking — together with has a lot cash has been spent thus far, what number of canines have been killed, and why the NIH commissioned the lethal canine testing when the Meals and Drug Administration has stated it’s not required.
In 2016, White Coat Waste also exposed how Fauci’s NIH division was utilizing tax {dollars} to purchase beagle puppies and strapping capsules stuffed with contaminated flies to their naked pores and skin.
Fauci and the NIH have additionally been underneath hearth for utilizing American tax {dollars} to fund the Wuhan Animal Lab’s coronavirus experiments on bats and different animals.
The now-terminated NIH undertaking, centered on “stress-induced and sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy,” marked the tip of many years of inhumane taxpayer-funded experiments that killed over 2,100 beagles since 1986.
NIH had been sourcing beagles from Envigo, a contractor that pleaded responsible in June 2024 to grotesque violations of the Animal Welfare Act.
Canine had been found crammed into feces-laden cages, ingesting non-potable water, and consuming rotten meals. Envigo was slapped with a report $35.5 million settlement, in accordance with Daily Caller.
On April 29, NIH introduced a sweeping initiative to maneuver away from animal testing and towards more practical, humane strategies.
However not everybody welcomed the change. Inside NIH communications obtained by the Every day Caller Information Basis present that as lately as mid-April, entrenched bureaucrats had been nonetheless defending the usage of beagles in sepsis analysis.
The information outlet reported:
The NIH introduced on April 29 an initiative to shift away from animal experimentation towards much less merciless strategies extra straight related to human well being equivalent to organoids, organs-on-a-chip, pc modeling and real-world information.
NIH made a number of commitments as part of that effort, together with establishing the Workplace of Analysis Innovation, Validation, and Utility inside Bhattacharya’s workplace to assist scale non-animal approaches; publishing annual information on the discount in funding for animal research; providing extra coaching in non-animal approaches and integrating that experience into the examine sections that make determinations about NIH extramural grants.
As lately as April 15, a longtime NIH official had defended the beagle experiments, saying that “present canine fashions of sepsis provide a number of benefits in analysis, together with related cardiovascular anatomy and the power to induce sepsis by means of mechanisms that mimic what happens in people,” in accordance with an electronic mail from NIH to congressional aides shared with the DCNF.
NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, appointed underneath Trump’s second time period to scrub home on the bloated federal well being company, confirmed the information throughout a phase on Fox & Associates Weekend.
WE WON! After a 9-year marketing campaign, White Coat Waste has SHUT DOWN the NIH’s final in-house canine lab.
2,133 beagles perished right here in merciless septic shock experiments—till we uncovered it & CLOSED it.
Final month, NIH defended the assessments & confirmed they had been nonetheless energetic pic.twitter.com/Hrq88dzxmB
— White Coat Waste (@WhiteCoatWaste) May 4, 2025
Anthony Bellotti, President and Founder, White Coat Waste, launched the next assertion:
“Because the watchdog that first uncovered and battled Dr. Fauci’s beagle tests (the largest animal testing scandal in historical past), we’re proud that White Coat Waste has closed the NIH’s final in-house beagle laboratory—and the US government’s biggest dog lab.
Impressed to finish animal testing after working in a lab, I based White Coat Waste to slash authorities spending on animal labs—and save lab animals. At this time’s landmark victory is particularly candy as our battle to reveal and shut NIH’s septic shock lab—which slaughtered greater than 2,000 beagles over the past 40 years—was the primary marketing campaign White Coat Waste began in 2016.
In 2019, following a White Coat Waste investigation, President Trump additionally closed the US government’s largest cat lab, and I adopted two of the survivors as pets. No different animal advocacy group has shut down federal canine labs in almost a era, or federal feline labs in two generations.
First, White Coat Waste ended canine testing contained in the Dept. of Veterans Affairs —the fed’s most painful canine labs. Now, we’ve carried out it once more on the NIH—the US authorities’s largest canine lab. Taxpayers and pet house owners shouldn’t be pressured to pay for the NIH’s beagle abuse, and now, following a White Coat Waste marketing campaign, they received’t should.
This has been our top priority for the Trump Administration. We applaud the President for chopping this wasteful NIH spending and can preserve combating till we defund all canine labs at house and abroad. The answer is straightforward: Cease the cash. Cease the insanity!”
