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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) — under Director Jay Bhattacharya’s new leadership — has shut down the last remaining in-house beagle experimentation lab, effectively ending the federal government’s most notorious dog testing program.
NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya confirmed the move during a Fox & Friends Weekend interview, saying, “We got rid of all of 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 dogs. They sourced the beagles, valued for being docile, from a contractor that paid the largest animal welfare fine in history. 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 Project, a taxpayer watchdog group, has provided The Gateway Pundit with new examples of Dr. Anthony Fauci facilitating cruel and unnecessary taxpayer-funded experimentation on dogs — this time in Tunisia.
Documents uncovered by the organization found that the National Institutes of Health division, led by Dr. Fauci, shipped part of a $375,800 grant to a lab in Tunisia to infest beagles with parasites.
The grant money funded a study published in 2021 that detailed the horror inflicted upon the unlucky dogs.
One of the tortures that the beagles were subjected to included locking their heads in mesh cages filled with infected sand flies so that the parasite-carrying insects could eat them alive.
Beagles are often used for these tests because of their gentle nature, even toward those who harm them.
There was a photo of the test, which is sure to haunt anyone with a conscience.
According to their paper, the scientists starved the sand flies in order to make sure they were hungry enough to attack the dogs.
“The sand flies were then allowed to feed on the sedated dogs….” the report explains.
The nightmare for dogs did not stop there. The experimenters locked beagles alone in cages in the middle of the desert, isolated, for nine consecutive nights, to use as bait to attract more infectious sand flies. There is also a photo of this horror.
“Fauci’s dog testing debacle is now an international disgrace. Not only is Fauci paying for beagle abuse here at home, but he also shipped our tax dollars overseas to have beagles eaten alive by insects in an African lab with no oversight from U.S. authorities. Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to foot the bill for this government waste and abuse. Congress must take action to investigate the full extent of Fauci’s dog testing debacle,” Mackie Burr, Director of Digital & Grassroots Development at the White Coat Waste Project said.
The article’s “Funding Statement” confirmed that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH) funded the lab in Tunisia.
“EZ and AS received funding from the US National Institutes of Health,” according to the grant. “EZ” is one of the paper’s co-authors, Elyes Zhioua, from the Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia. “AS” is Abhay Satoskar, from Ohio State University.
White Coat Waste Project pointed out that on the NIH’s website, Zhioua is listed as the co-PI on the grant along with Satoskar.
White Coat Waste Project, using the Freedom of Information Act, revealed that Fauci spent $424,000 to commission another study in which healthy beagles were given an experimental drug and intentionally infested with flies that carry a disease-causing parasite that affects humans.
The researchers are developing infections in 28 beagles and allowing them to suffer for three months before being euthanized.
The report from White Coat Waste Project explained that records show that the dogs were “vocalizing in pain” during the experiments.
The organization also noted that experimenters admit this investigational drug, “has been extensively tested and confirmed…in different animal models such as mice…Mongolian gerbils…and rhesus macaques….” Meaning that this painful torture is completely unnecessary.
In a letter sent to Fauci in 2021, Congressman Scott Perry and 14 colleagues cited their investigation and demanded answers about the project — including has much money has been spent to date, how many dogs have been killed, and why the NIH commissioned the deadly dog testing when the Food and Drug Administration has said it’s not required.
In 2016, White Coat Waste also exposed how Fauci’s NIH division was using tax dollars to buy beagle puppies and strapping capsules full of infected flies to their bare skin.
Fauci and the NIH have also been under fire for using American tax dollars to fund the Wuhan Animal Lab’s coronavirus experiments on bats and other animals.
The now-terminated NIH project, focused on “stress-induced and sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy,” marked the end of decades of inhumane taxpayer-funded experiments that killed over 2,100 beagles since 1986.
NIH had been sourcing beagles from Envigo, a contractor that pleaded guilty in June 2024 to grotesque violations of the Animal Welfare Act.
Dogs were discovered crammed into feces-laden cages, drinking non-potable water, and eating rotten food. Envigo was slapped with a record $35.5 million settlement, according to Daily Caller.
On April 29, NIH announced a sweeping initiative to move away from animal testing and toward more effective, humane methods.
But not everyone welcomed the change. Internal NIH communications obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show that as recently as mid-April, entrenched bureaucrats were still defending the use of beagles in sepsis research.
The news outlet reported:
The NIH announced on April 29 an initiative to shift away from animal experimentation toward less cruel methods more directly relevant to human health such as organoids, organs-on-a-chip, computer modeling and real-world data.
NIH made several commitments as a part of that effort, including establishing the Office of Research Innovation, Validation, and Application within Bhattacharya’s office to help scale non-animal approaches; publishing annual data on the reduction in funding for animal studies; offering more training in non-animal approaches and integrating that expertise into the study sections that make determinations about NIH extramural grants.
As recently as April 15, a longtime NIH official had defended the beagle experiments, saying that “current canine models of sepsis offer several advantages in research, including similar cardiovascular anatomy and the ability to induce sepsis through mechanisms that mimic what occurs in humans,” according to an email from NIH to congressional aides shared with the DCNF.
NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, appointed under Trump’s second term to clean house at the bloated federal health agency, confirmed the news during a segment on Fox & Friends Weekend.
WE WON! After a 9-year campaign, White Coat Waste has SHUT DOWN the NIH’s last in-house dog lab.
2,133 beagles perished here in cruel septic shock experiments—until we exposed it & CLOSED it.
Last month, NIH defended the tests & confirmed they were still active pic.twitter.com/Hrq88dzxmB
— White Coat Waste (@WhiteCoatWaste) May 4, 2025
Anthony Bellotti, President and Founder, White Coat Waste, released the following statement:
“As the watchdog that first uncovered and battled Dr. Fauci’s beagle tests (the biggest animal testing scandal in history), we’re proud that White Coat Waste has closed the NIH’s last in-house beagle laboratory—and the US government’s biggest dog lab.
Inspired to end animal testing after working in a lab, I founded White Coat Waste to slash government spending on animal labs—and save lab animals. Today’s landmark victory is especially sweet as our fight to expose and close NIH’s septic shock lab—which slaughtered more than 2,000 beagles over the last 40 years—was the first campaign White Coat Waste started in 2016.
In 2019, following a White Coat Waste investigation, President Trump also closed the US government’s largest cat lab, and I adopted two of the survivors as pets. No other animal advocacy group has shut down federal dog labs in nearly a generation, or federal feline labs in two generations.
First, White Coat Waste ended dog testing inside the Dept. of Veterans Affairs —the fed’s most painful dog labs. Now, we’ve done it again at the NIH—the US government’s largest dog lab. Taxpayers and pet owners shouldn’t be forced to pay for the NIH’s beagle abuse, and now, following a White Coat Waste campaign, they won’t have to.
This has been our top priority for the Trump Administration. We applaud the President for cutting this wasteful NIH spending and will keep fighting until we defund all dog labs at home and abroad. The solution is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness!”
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