Animal Testing Labs in China May Still Be Receiving US Tax Dollars—and Some Lawmakers Have Had Enough

The P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, on April 17, 2020. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

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In May, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) did something extraordinary. The agency quietly scrubbed the Wuhan Institute of Virology from its list of preapproved labs that can receive U.S. tax dollars to conduct animal testing.