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LAB: 257 Plum Island
The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ
Laboratory
by Michael C
Carroll
Nestled near the Hamptons, the fashionable summer playground of
America's rich and famous, and in the shadow of New York City, lies
an unimposing 840-acre island unidentified on most maps. On the few
on which it can be found, Plum Island is marked red or yellow, and
stamped U.S. government—restricted or dangerous animal diseases.
Though many people live the good life within a scant mile or two from
its shores, few know the name of this pork chop–shaped island.
Even fewer can say whether it is inhabited, or why it doesn't exist on the
map. That's all about to change.
Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island
Germ Laboratory blows the lid off the stunning true nature and
checkered history of Plum Island. It shows that the seemingly bucolic
island on the edge of the largest population center in the United
States is a ticking biological time bomb that none of us can safely
ignore.
Based on innumerable declassified government documents, scores of in-
depth interviews, and access to Plum Island itself, this is an eye-
opening, suspenseful account of a federal government germ laboratory
gone terribly wrong. For the first time, Lab 257 takes you deep
inside this secret world and presents startling revelations including
virus outbreaks, biological meltdowns, infected workers who were
denied assistance in diagnosis by Plum Island brass, the periodic
flushing of contaminated raw sewage into area waters, and the
insidious connections between Plum Island, Lyme disease, and the
deadly 1999 West Nile virus outbreak.
An exploration of the complex world of microbiology, viruses, and
bacteria, Lab 257 also shows how the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
which ran Plum Island for the last half century, is far more than
wholesome grade-A eggs and the food pyramid. The book probes what's
in store for Plum Island's new owner, the Department of Homeland
Security, in this age of bioterrorism. And for those interested in
questions of national security and safety, it is a call to action for
those concerned with protecting present and future generations from
preventable biological catastrophes.
Lab 257 will change forever our current understanding of Plum Island -
- a place that is, in the words of one insider, "a biological Three
Mile Island."
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