News: Experimenters drugged the dogs and “[locked] their heads in mesh cages filled with hundreds of infected sand flies.”
They starved the flies beforehand to make them hungry and isolated the beagles in the cages for nine consecutive nights, “using them as bait to attract infectious sand flies.”
In the WCWP’s words, the dogs were “eaten alive.”
To an animal lover (and rational person) like myself, “unbelievable” does not even begin to describe this abuse.
It’s heartbreaking, unethical and sickening.
And to make matters worse, this is being funded with your tax dollars, without your consent.