Defense Department, NIH Collaborating On ‘cruel’ Dog Experiments with ‘problematic’ Chinese Labs, GOP Lawmakers and Watchdog Say; Argentina to Follow Trump and Leave World Health Organization, and other C-Virus related stories

By admin On Feb 10, 2025

Defense Department, NIH collaborating on ‘cruel’ dog experiments with ‘problematic’ Chinese labs, GOP lawmakers and watchdog say:

The Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health (NIH) are still collaborating on research with a Beijing lab for “cruel” drug experiments on beagles, according to a federal watchdog and Republican lawmakers who have sought sanctions on the biotech entity involved, citing concerning links to the Chinese Communist Party.

Pharmaron, a Chinese biotech firm, is currently testing pharmaceuticals on up to 300 beagles per week to learn how to better treat neurological disorders, with the help of US taxpayer funding from the DOD and NIH, according to federal contracts exclusively shared with The Post by the White Coat Waste Project.

The NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences received initial funding “specifically” from the Pentagon, the contract shows, to funnel $124,200 in total for the drug experiments on beagle puppies — as well as mice and rats — at the Beijing-based company’s lab between Sept. 1, 2023, and May 31, 2025.

“Beagle dog is docile, cute and easy to domesticate,” states Pharmaron’s proposal on Aug. 17, 2023, noting that all research would comport with the Animal Welfare Act and the Public Health Service Policy on Laboratory Animal Care.

The document goes on to describe how the hundreds of pups, some as young as eight months, “will be reused” throughout the study “to save animals and decrease cost,” while laying out criteria for weak, infected or those suffering organ dysfunction to be “euthanized.”

“There is no evidence we can find that indicates the Department of Defense funds any related animal research,” a spokesperson told The Post.

The nonprofit government watchdog group filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to obtain the contract as part of an investigation last year into more than two dozen Chinese labs that had received more than $2 million for animal testing and other experiments.

“No animal lab in China should get another red cent of taxpayers’ money,” said Justin Goodman, senior vice president at government watchdog White Coat Waste Project, in a statement.

“They ghoulishly chose to abuse beagles because they’re ‘docile’ and ‘cute’ — the same qualities that make them loving pets. In 2020, President Trump famously cut (Dr. Anthony) Fauci’s grant to the Wuhan lab days after we exposed it,” he said.

“We’re urging him to pick up where he left off and defund all of China’s animal labs once and for all. The solution is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness!” Goodman continued.

“It’s alarming that American tax dollars are still funding cruel dog testing and other animal labs in Communist China after our Select Subcommittee exposed dangerous experiments being conducted in places like the Wuhan Lab and cut that funding off,” Staten Island GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis told The Post. —>READ MORE HERE

Argentina to follow Trump and leave World Health Organization:

Country’s President says decision is partly motivated by ‘deep differences’ over the agency’s handling of the pandemic

Argentina will follow the United States and withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO), a spokesperson for the country’s president has said.

Manuel Adorni, spokesperson for Argentina’s President Javier Milei, told a press conference on Wednesday that the decision was partly motivated by “deep differences” over the WHO’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The WHO’s pandemic management, along with the leadership of former President Alberto Fernández, “led [Argentina] to the longest lockdown in human history,” Mr Adorni said. “We Argentines will not allow an international organisation to intervene in our sovereignty, much less in our health.”

The WHO promoted “never-ending lockdowns” during the pandemic “without any scientific evidence,” the presidential communications team said in a statement on X minutes after the press conference.

Mr Adorni said Argentina does not receive funding from the WHO for healthcare management and claimed the move “will not affect the quality of healthcare services” in the country.