“Fauci’s NIH division shipped part of a $375,800 grant to a lab in Tunisia ... to drug beagles and lock their heads in mesh cages filled with hundreds of infected sand flies.”
White Coat Waste Project
Taxpayer watchdog group. Blog post. Claim dated 31 Aug 2021.
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What FactCheck.org found
The agency funded some research using beagles, but it denied funding the Tunisia project that went viral on social media because it involved sedated beagles whose heads were stuck in mesh cages with diseased sand flies.
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In short
White Coat Waste Project (Taxpayer watchdog group) made this claim around 31 August 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 November 2021, 63 days later. Its rating was “Didn't Fund That Project”.
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