• A truck carrying monkeys from the taxpayer-funded Tulane National Primate Research Center (TNPRC) to a Fauci-funded private laboratory crashed this week, leaving several monkeys dead and at large. 
• White Coat Waste (WCW) was the first to flag that the lab receives $35 million annually from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its funding for wasteful and cruel primate experiments was recently renewed by NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and NIH Acting Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer.
• TNPRC breeds, confines, and experiments on nearly 6,000 monkeys annually, infecting them with COVID, anthrax, botulism, monkeypox, ricin, AIDS-like viruses, and other deadly pathogens. 
• TNPRC is home to a high-risk bioagent lab established there by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s NIH division in 2010.
• TNPRC’s funding was renewed even though Bhattacharya told WCW he would end all primate testing and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said in August that his agency was “working ferociously” to cut primate labs. 

Earlier this week, a truck carrying 21 monkeys from Louisiana’s taxpayer-funded Tulane National Primate Research Center to another laboratory crashed when the driver fell asleep at the wheel. The heartbreaking story went viral.

Monkeys infected with Covid and other infectious diseases like Hep C and Herpes.

How incredibly sad and wrong.

I’ve never met a taxpayer that wants their hard earned dollars paying for animal abuse nor who supports it.

This needs to end! https://t.co/s6IoBCXRTc

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) October 29, 2025

Many of the monkeys escaped the truck, and reports indicate that five of the monkeys were tragically shot by police, and three are still on the loose.  The primates were headed to a private testing facility in Maryland that receives taxpayer funding from Dr. Fauci’s former National Institutes of Health division for deadly vaccine experiments on animals.

Since White Coat Waste has been tracking taxpayer funding for TNPRC for years, we quickly pointed out that the facility is heavily funded by the NIH, including with grants initiated by Dr. Anthony Fauci, and that millions in taxpayer funding was recently renewed under current NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya despite promising to end all primate tests. 

TNPRC receives approximately $35 million of taxpayers’ money each year from the NIH to conduct painful and deadly experiments on primates and to breed thousands of monkeys for testing.  The lab has been continuously funded by NIH since 1964 and currently imprisons nearly 6,000 monkeys. 

Despite Dr. Bhattacharya pledging to WCW that he would end all primate testing, his office, the NIH Office of the Director, has recently renewed several multi-million-dollar grants to TNPRC. 

In June 2025, Bhattacharya’s office forked over another $9 million to fund the TNPRC’s “administration, operations, animal resources, scientific research resources, a pilot research program, alteration and renovations, outreach, and education and training activities.” 

The escaped monkeys came from a lab funded by Dr. Fauci that experiments with highly deadly pathogens. I support the Trump administration’s crackdown on this risky, and often wasteful and inhumane, research. Thanks @WhiteCoatWaste for exposing https://t.co/fl1LEoG2GY

— Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) November 1, 2025

In August, the Office of the Director also gave TNPRC an additional $2.3 million to fund its breeding colony that supplies animals for wasteful and inhumane HIV/AIDS experiments at Tulane and other laboratories, including the University of Florida, University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, Boston College, and Harvard.

Did you see the viral story this week about the lab monkey transport truck crash yesterday?@WhiteCoatWaste is reporting that the monkeys were being shipped from a @NIH-funded lab at Tulane University @Tulane that got funding from Dr. Fauci to infect the animals with COVID,… https://t.co/n3FdLWZ2WP pic.twitter.com/cpiUppWce1

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) October 30, 2025

In addition to the funding from Bhattacharya’s office, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) renewed a Fauci-era grant supporting TNPRC’s “Biocontainment Laboratory” that infects monkeys with anthrax, botulism, glanders, monkeypox, ricin, COVID, and other highly deadly pathogens. The dangerous facility raked in another $2.8 million from NIAID in August. 

Tulane’s primate center is also home to one of Fauci’s dangerous bioagent labs that infects monkeys with anthrax, botulism, glanders, MPOX, ricin, COVID & more.

In August, @DrJBhattacharya‘s @NIH gave it another $2.8M https://t.co/wIEz5WVE85 pic.twitter.com/zAdzoW4axO

— Justin Goodman (@JustinRGoodman) October 29, 2025

In one recent stomach-churning experiment, WCW uncovered at Tulane’s NIH-funded primate center, human nipples were sewn onto male monkeys.

Commenting on the accident, U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) wrote on X: “The fact that we *can* infect “aggressive” monkeys with horrible diseases and then transport them around the country doesn’t mean that we *should* do that. Is it just me, or does this seem like a particularly bad idea to anyone else?”

Indeed! That’s why we’ve been working with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) to pass the PRIMATES Act and defund the NIH’s monkey business at Tulane and elsewhere.

In August, responding to another WCW investigation of Fauci-funded primate tests, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. stated, “We are working ferociously to end all non-human primate studies except in cases that are vital to saving human life, and for which no other option exists.”  RFK, Jr. also said that he would work with WCW to cut this wasteful spending.  

Drs. Bhattacharya and Kleinstreuer at the NIH didn’t get the memo, because we continue to expose millions in new funding they’re dishing out to primate labs in the U.S. and overseas. 

We’re urging Secretary Kennedy to follow the lead of the first Trump administration and shut down government primate labs and retire the survivors to sanctuary. 

The solution is simple: