The $30 billion NIH blamed the tightening federal budget for its inability to produce the ‪#‎Ebola‬ vaccine. Meanwhile, it spent millions in tax payer dollars on chimp poop & more.

◼ 'Origami' condoms, Michelle Obama gardening games and poop-throwing chimps: NIH spent millions on wacky projects but now complains cuts killed off Ebola vaccine research - DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE

The NIH budget included $2.4 million for a new condom design whose inventor is now being investigated for fraud

Another $939,000 taught scientists that male fruit flies prefer younger females

$257,000 went to create a companion website for first lady Michelle Obama's White House garden

It cost $592,000 to determine that chimpanzees with the best poop-flinging skills are also the best communicators, and another $117,000 to learn that most chimps are right-handed

NIH director Dr. Francis Collins complained Sunday that a lack of funding is behind his agency's failure to produce an Ebola vaccine in time to combat this year's epidemic

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