The Maryland-based organization on Monday evening told DailyMail.com that the pictures of the dogs with their heads enclosed in netting – being attacked by the flies as part of research into leishmaniasis, a serious parasitic disease transmitted by sand flies – were not from their experiments.
The NIH said that they did do leishmaniasis research on dogs in a laboratory in 2016, and in an enclosed open space in Tunisia, but not the research pictured…
In September 2020, Fauci’s agency reportedly authorized a $424,000 grant for animal experiments at the University of Georgia, where healthy beagles were drugged and then intentionally infested with parasite-carrying flies.
Records show the dogs were ‘vocalizing in pain’ during the experiments, before being killed.
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