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Fauci Moved Kitten Experiments into NIH After Trump Shut Down USDA Lab, New White Coat Waste Investigation Reveals They’re Still Active

A shocking new investigation by White Coat Waste (WCW) has uncovered how Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) quietly shifted controversial kitten experimentation from a shuttered U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) lab into the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) own internal laboratories in Bethesda, Maryland, after President Donald Trump’s administration shut down the USDA’s infamous “kitten slaughterhouse” exposed by the watchdog organization in 2019.

The newly obtained records, obtained by WCW through Freedom of Information Act requests, show that in 2021, under Dr. Fauci, NIAID scientist Dr. Michael Grigg, a collaborator with the now-closed USDA lab, resurrected the kitten experimentation protocols inside NIH intramural laboratories, where they remain active through at least December 13, 2026.

For decades, the USDA’s Beltsville, Maryland, facility bred and killed cats for toxoplasmosis parasite experiments led by scientist Jitender Dubey.

WCW uncovered how Dubey’s lab bred thousands of kittens for painful and deadly taxpayer-funded testing.

Dubey and his staff traveled to China and other foreign countries to visit wet markets and purchase cat and dog meat, which would then be fed to kittens back at the USDA lab in gruesome cannibalism experiments.

WCW detailed the disturbing project in an exchange with Republican Rep. Eric Burlison during a House Oversight hearing last year and highlighted how Dubey was even inducted into the USDA Hall of Fame.

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Project ‘PROVIDENT’: NIAID Launched $70 Million Pandemic Program Targeting Hantaviruses Before Outbreak

A massive National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) pandemic-preparedness program focused in part on hantaviruses was already actively underway—and had just achieved unprecedented structural and vaccine-platform mapping of Andes hantavirus—before the highly publicized 2026 international Andes hantavirus outbreak ordeal emerged.

The federally funded initiative, called PROVIDENT (“Prepositioning Optimized Strategies for Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics against Diverse Emerging Infectious Threats”), officially began in September 2024 and remains active through June 2029, according to NIH RePORTER documents.

The project is run by Dr. Kartik Chandran, a professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s Department of Microbiology & Immunology.

Importantly, the project is not a small short-term grant.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine announced in September 2024 that the consortium received a:

“five-year, $14 million per year grant”

That places the total projected funding for the program at roughly $70 million over its active lifespan.

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91% of Flu Vaccine Recipients Shed Chimeric Lab-Made Vaccine Virus, Raising Transmission Concerns: NIH-Funded Journal ‘Clinical Infectious Diseases’ Study

A newly published, U.S. government-funded, peer-reviewed study has confirmed that a live attenuated influenza vaccine caused detectable post-vaccination viral shedding in more than 91% of adult recipients, raising major questions about whether vaccinated individuals function as carriers and spreaders of vaccine-derived influenza pathogens after immunization.

The findings, published Thursday in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, claim that the purported virus inside the vaccine actively replicated inside recipients after administration and was subsequently shed from the nose in the overwhelming majority of participants.

Researchers from George Washington University evaluated 283 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 49 who received the intranasal live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV), FluMist, during the 2023–2024 and 2024–2025 flu seasons.

The new paper explicitly states:

“LAIV replication begins within 24 hours and declines over the first week…”

Researchers further explained that the virus in the vaccine:

“replicates in the upper respiratory tract, mimicking a natural infection…”

In plain English, the vaccine virus reproduces inside recipients and is expelled back out through the nose afterward.

Researchers collected nasal swabs on day 1, days 2–4, and days 5–7 after vaccination and measured influenza A and B RNA using RT-PCR testing.

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NIH Whistleblower Exposes ‘Full Coverup Mode’ Over Fauci’s Bat Virus Mad Scientist Vincent Munster’s Monkey Bite Horror and Illegal African Pathogen Smuggling, FBI Criminal Probe Underway

The National Institutes of Health is allegedly scrambling to bury the recent explosive scandals at its high-security Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, and a new whistleblower letter obtained by the White Coat Waste Project claims senior NIH officials in Bethesda are in “full coverup mode” to protect one of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s top virologists.

The allegations come just days after it was reported that the FBI has launched a criminal investigation into NIH scientist Vincent Munster for smuggling deadly human pathogen samples, including monkeypox virus, from Africa in his luggage without required permits or paperwork.

According to the whistleblower letter sent to taxpayer watchdog White Coat Waste, Munster, a German-born researcher long funded by Fauci’s NIAID, attempted to smuggle “dozens of vials” of viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) samples back into the United States from Africa in January.

He and two colleagues traveling with him allegedly lied to customs officials about the contents of their baggage.

The whistleblower said that NIH officials kept the entire incident quiet, refusing to inform the broader RML campus and quietly banning Munster and his colleagues from the facility.

The whistleblower states the decisions to downplay the smuggling came directly “from the main NIH campus in Bethesda” and that senior officials are now operating in “full coverup mode.”

That’s not all.

The same letter alleges that a separate lab accident at RML, first exposed by White Coat Waste in January, involved a staffer being bitten by a macaque monkey infected with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), a deadly foreign virus.

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FBI Has Reportedly Launched a Criminal Probe into Fauci’s Bat Virus Mad Scientist Vincent Munster for Smuggling Deadly Pathogen Samples from Africa

The FBI has reportedly launched a criminal investigation into NIH virologist Vincent Munster, one of Anthony Fauci’s top bat coronavirus researchers at the high-security Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, after he and a colleague were caught smuggling dangerous pathogen samples.

The samples Munster and his colleague were caught with included monkeypox virus, from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

According to an explosive exclusive report from Paul Thacker, Munster and NIH lab scientist Claude Kwe Yinda were stopped during airport security screening upon their return from Africa earlier this year.

Thacker’s report comes a day after White Coat Waste first posted on X that Munster had been removed from the HHS employee directory and was reportedly suspended.

According to the report, authorities discovered a hard-shelled protective case in their luggage containing undeclared human pathogen samples collected from patients.

Monkeypox virus is classified by the Department of Health and Human Services as a “select agent” that poses a severe threat to public safety and requires strict permitting, inactivation, and shipping protocols.

Neither scientist has confirmed whether the samples were properly inactivated.

HHS has referred all questions about the case to the FBI, which is actively investigating.

“We are unable to comment as this is under investigation,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon wrote in an email to Thacker. “So we will refer you to the FBI.”

Thacker reports that when he contacted the FBI about the investigation into Munster and his NIH researcher, the FBI press office replied by email, “We decline to comment.”

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NIH Virologist Vincent Munster Caught Smuggling Deadly Viruses Into U.S., FBI Investigating

Since the COVID pandemic landed on American shores in early 2020, virologists and allied science writers have engaged in a vociferous propaganda campaign to deny the dangers of virus experiments. When Nature Magazine published a 2021 article minimizing a Wuhan lab accident as the pandemic’s cause, science writer Amy Maxmen quoted Vincent Munster, a virologist at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in Montana.

Munster told Nature’s Maxmen that there was nothing suspicious about a novel coronavirus popping up in the same city as the Wuhan Institute of Virology which was studying coronaviruses. Labs tend to specialize in the specific viruses found around them, Munster explained, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology focuses on coronaviruses because many circulate in China and neighboring countries.

“Nine out of ten times, when there’s a new outbreak, you’ll find a lab that will be working on these kinds of viruses nearby,” Munster told Nature.

Well, kind of. Sort of. But really not.

In fact, virologists regularly collect viruses from far away countries and bring them back to their own cities to study. And according to emails I have seen that are now circulating inside the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), one of those virologists is the NIH’s Vincent Munster.

“We are unable to comment as this is under investigation,” wrote HHS spokesperson, Andrew Nixon in an email. “So we will refer you to the FBI.”

When contacted about their investigation into Munster and his NIH researcher, the FBI press office replied by email, “We decline to comment.”

While on a trip back from the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this year, Munster and a scientist in his NIH lab were pulled aside for an airport security inspection. Inside their luggage, one of the two had a hard-shelled protective case used to transport sensitive property such as electronics and firearms. When the protective case was opened, it was found to contain pathogen samples collected from patients.

However, the human pathogens, which included monkeypox virus, may have been inactivated by reagents and rendered no longer infectious.

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NIH’s Fauci-Holdover Animal Testing Czar Caught Lying About Funding Dog and Cat Experiments – Approved Millions While PETA Applauded

In a complaint filed with the National Institutes of Health, White Coat Waste has accused Dr. Nicole Kleinstreuer, the agency’s Deputy Director and overseer of its massive animal testing portfolio, of spreading outright lies about the agency’s funding of experiments on dogs and cats.

The filing demands corrections to Kleinstreuer’s false claims that these grants “predate” her tenure and that NIH is legally “constrained” to keep funding them, when in reality, millions in new and extended grants for painful, lethal tests on beagles and kittens have been approved under her leadership.

The complaint stems from Kleinstreuer’s appearance on an official NIH video podcast last July, where she tried to dodge criticism from WCW and animal lovers by insisting, “I understand that there’s part of the extramural portfolio that exists, that predates [us]. We are constrained under the law to leave those existing grants in place for now…. But to phase them out, we are working tirelessly behind the scenes.” She even claimed NIH was creating an “action plan to phase those out as quickly as possible under the law.”

However, WCW’s detailed analysis of NIH records paints a very different picture.

Far from being relics of Fauci’s past, these experiments have been actively funded and expanded during Kleinstreuer’s watch, which began in April of last year.

According to the complaint:

  • NIH has greenlit over 30 new grants potentially involving dog experiments, totaling around $40 million. One egregious example: a nearly $3 million grant to a pharma company for lethal tests on 68 beagles, force-fed an implant for opioid treatment (Grant No. UG3DA062511).
  • More than 45 existing grants for dog tests have been extended, with over $170 million awarded overall and at least $6 million in fresh funding. This includes over $900,000 in new money to Tufts University for force-feeding beagles diet pills mimicking gastric bypass (Grant No. R44DK141341).
  • At least 3 new cat grants worth $1.1 million, including a University of Minnesota project where up to 60 kittens endure skull drilling, virus injections, induced strokes, paralysis, and death – with $486,100 doled out in August 2025 and more to come through 2030 (Grant No. R01NS140244).
  • Over 10 extended cat grants totaling more than $45 million, with at least $533,961 new for spinal cord injuries and treadmill torture on cats (Grant No. R01NS110550).

These aren’t holdovers; they’re affirmative decisions by Kleinstreuer and her team to pump taxpayer dollars into what she herself called “unethical,” “misleading,” and “resource-intensive” animal models that “hold back progress in human health.”

WCW argues that this directly contradicts her podcast spin, violating federal information quality laws that require government officials to be accurate and objective.

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NIH Lab Studying Deadly Pathogens Reported Biological Incident In November: Federal Records

The White Coat Waste Project – which you may remember for exposing Dr. Anthony Fauci’s sick experiments on beagles in 2024 – has obtained a document revealing that the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Hamilton, Montana reported a biological incident in November 2025. 

RML, which operates BSL-2, BSL-3, and BSL-4 ‘full suit’ laboratories notably studies viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola, Marburg and Lassa virus, as well as coronaviruses, dangerous bacteria, tuberculosis, tick-borne pathogens (Rocky Mountain spotted fever, for example), West Nile virus, Prion diseases, and others. 

According to a November 2025 biosafety report obtained by WCWP, a ‘Form 3’ was reported to the Federal Select Agent Program on Nov. 13, 2025. Form 3 is a mandatory notification form used to alert the Federal Select Agent Program of any ‘theft, loss, or release’ involving select agents or toxins, Infowars’ Breanna Morello reports after interviewing WCWP’s Justin Goodman – who called Rocky Mountain Laboratories ‘one of the most dangerous biolabs in the country.‘

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Scientists Are Putting $14.2M Behind an Ambitious New Effort to Map the Body’s “Hidden” Sixth Sense

Your body is constantly communicating with your brain, sending silent signals about everything from your heartbeat to your blood pressure. It’s an ongoing internal conversation that keeps you alive. However, it is also a system that science still barely understands.

Now, a new $14.2 million research effort led by Scripps Research Institute, a non-profit medical research center based in San Diego, California, aims to change that by mapping the body’s mysterious “hidden sixth sense.”

The five-year project, funded through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Transformative Research Award, will attempt to decode interoception—the process by which the nervous system monitors and interprets internal physiological signals.

Researchers hope their work will produce the first-ever atlas of this inner sensory system, revealing how the brain keeps tabs on vital functions such as breathing, digestion, and immune responses.

“My team is honored that the NIH is supporting the kind of collaborative science needed to study such a complex system,”  Scripps project lead, Dr. Ardem Patapoutian, said in a statement.

Dr. Patapoutian is no stranger to decoding the body’s hidden senses. In 2021, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering how cells sense touch and pressure, a finding that fundamentally reshaped our understanding of sensation. Now, he and colleagues at Scripps believe that interoception could hold the key to the next great understanding of how the brain maintains internal balance.

Interoception isn’t like the classic five senses. You can’t see or hear your blood pressure or digestion. Instead, this “sixth sense” operates through a network of sensory neurons that relay information from deep inside the body to the brain, often without conscious awareness.

These neurons weave through organs and tissues—heart, lungs, stomach, kidneys—forming a hidden communication network that ensures your body’s systems stay in sync.

The project represents a partnership between Scripps Research and the Allen Institute, combining expertise in molecular genetics, whole-body imaging, and neuroscience. Dr. Patapoutian will be joined by Dr. Li Ye, the N. Paul Whittier Chair in Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Scripps Research, and Dr. Bosiljka Tasic, Director of Molecular Genetics at the Allen Institute.

The NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award is part of the agency’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program,  designed to fund bold ideas that push scientific boundaries. Established in 2009, the NIH describes the award as “supporting exceptionally innovative and/or unconventional research projects with the potential to create or overturn fundamental paradigms.”

Interoception remains one of biology’s least understood systems, partly because it’s so difficult to study. Unlike external senses that rely on clearly defined organs—eyes, ears, nose—interoceptive pathways are diffuse and overlapping. Signals from the heart, gut, or lungs intermingle as they travel to the brain, blurring the boundaries between systems.

Since the sensations monitored by interoception originate deep within the body and are interpreted largely without our conscious awareness, researchers often liken it to a kind of “hidden sixth sense.” Understanding how this internal sensory network functions could profoundly reshape how medicine approaches everything from stress regulation to chronic disease.

With NIH backing, the researchers plan to systematically map how sensory neurons connect to internal organs, including the heart and gastrointestinal tract.

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GOP Congressman Calls for End to Cruel NIH Dog Testing Following More Abuse Allegations Against Fauci’s Beagle Breeder

In the wake of mounting scandal, Republican Congressman Paul Gosar is demanding that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) halt all experiments on dogs, after new abuse allegations tied to the notorious Ridglan Farms puppy mill that supplies beagles to NIH-funded labs.

Gosar’s comment came in response to a White Coat Waste post that included a disturbing photo of a “9-year-old retired female breeder beagle from the notorious Ridglan Farms” being abused in an NIH-funded experiment at the Cleveland Clinic.

The pressure comes as Ridglan Farms’ lead veterinarian had his veterinary license unanimously suspended this week by the Wisconsin Veterinary Examining Board. Ridglan also faces over 300 alleged animal health violations, a proposed $55,000 state fine, and possible criminal referral, as Gateway Pundit previously reported.

The suspension is a significant escalation in the long‑running controversy over Ridglan, a commercial beagle breeding operation that WCW has documented supplies animals directly to cruel experiments funded with tax dollars by the NIH.

WCW’s investigation has found that dozens of Ridglan beagles have already been used in painful NIH‑supported experiments—ranging from tick infestation studies at the University of Missouri to forced infections, drug injections, and viral exposure protocols. WCW has also obtained documents linking NIH-funded dog testing labs at Northwestern University, University of Chicago, Washington University-St. Louis, University of Georgia, and others to Ridglan.

In a July 2025 letter, Reps. Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene and others sent to the NIH requesting the cancelation of all dog and cat testing grants awarded by Dr. Fauci and an end to future funding for dog and cat testing, he cited the ongoing NIH-funded tick bite experiment on Ridglan beagles uncovered by WCW.

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