Newly Released Fauci Files Reveal Dangerous NIAID-Funded Aerosolized Ebola Research

Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness,

Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released documents from Dr. Fauci’s diary and emails Monday detailing his dangerous NIAID-funded research during the Obama Administration, including a 2015 experiment that exposed vaccinated monkeys to aerosolized Ebola.

The risky research was conducted at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick under a NIAID task order. The NIAID study compared four vaccines in groups of four monkeys exposed to aerosolized Ebola. The exposure was engineered to drive the virus deep into the lungs in a way natural infection would not, the records show.

The vaccinated primates reportedly developed necrosis, inflammation, and fibrin in the lungs, while the unvaccinated controls did not, indicating that the vaccine itself was making the disease worse. The experiments left 80 percent of vaccinated monkeys dead.

“What idiots those guys at USAMRIID are,” Fauci wrote on March 7, 2016. The work “should have been a classified experiment that never should have been done in the first place,” he added. Two days later, however, then-NIAID director wrote that the experiments were “important for bio defense.”

Fauci was outraged that the failed vaccine research was shared with U.S. embassy officials in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

“This should have been a classified experiment,” he wrote in his diary. “The foolish DOD people send the data to the FDA and then circulated as FYI to various embassies including those in West Africa where we are about to engage on a much larger DSD vaccine trial for Ebola.”

According to Fauci, the embassy officials “went bonkers” because it looked like the U.S. wanted to vaccinate people with a dangerous vaccine.

He also said such experiments should have been classified because they “could indicate a vulnerability.”

However, NIAID’s own report states that at no time had clearances been requested, nor was classification ever mentioned. Moreover, the data had already gone to vaccine manufacturers, and some of it had already been published.

Nonetheless, Fauci was dismayed when a Department of Defense official mentioned the experiments were funded by NIAID during a White House briefing. “No one followed up on that, but I almost fell off my chair!!!!” he wrote in an email to his colleagues at NIAID.

Following this disclosure, NIAID officials discussed “damage control” in an email chain. “We may need to a bit of damage control here,” NIAID’s biodefense director wrote.

The problem for Fauci wasn’t the dangerous experiments, but the possibility the public could find out about the dangerous experiments. So he took immediate steps to have the research classified.

“The DoD folks said that they wanted to publish the data. I said that I thought that it should be classified and the NSC people blew them out of the water and said that they agreed with me,” he said.

Deputy Director Cliff Lane told two NIAID scientists not to move forward on Ebola experiments until the dust settled, warning that “one might consider this dual use research.” He instructed his colleagues not to discuss the matter with anyone until he had a chance to talk to them.

Four days later, NIAID researcher Peter Jahrling warned that if aerosol challenge studies were treated as dual use research of concern, “the entire MCM development paradigm is gutted,” and wrote “I will keep the rest off Email.”

In the same message, Jahrling ominously noted that with the Ebola work paused, NIAID would “continue to make plans to initiate the CoV [COVID-19] study as soon as the lights turn green.”