US Rep. questions Fauci over test in ‘Monkey Island’

Washington, Dec 02 (UNI) South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace wrote a letter addressed to Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, regarding monkeys allegedly being kept on an island in South Carolina and later used for testing experiments by the institute he directs.

Mace in her letter claimed that “according to federal documents and media reports, over 3,500 monkeys currently live on Morgan Island and up to 600 each year are removed from the island for use in cruel taxpayer-funded experiments by the institute,” reports The Hill.
She alleged that the experiments involve infecting the primaries with debilitating and painful diseases and withholding pain relief.
She also asked NIAID for an explanation of its involvement in “operating and maintaining Morgan Island” and provide the Republican lawmaker with the number of monkeys that have been transported from the South Carolina island to its labs since Jan 1.
According to the report, Mace’s letter comes as conservatives and some Democrats have intensely scrutinized NIAID and Fauci for the institute’s involvement in animal studies, some of which has been riddled with misinformation.
Reacting to such conversations, Fauci earlier this week said that the lies and misinformation swirling around him are “noise,” he noted that he was worried about the damage that false and misleading information could have on science.
“I’m not going to be around here forever, but science is going to be here forever. And if you damage science, you are doing something very detrimental to society long after I leave,” he had said.