envaxGovernments Secret Plum Island Germ LaboratorySun Mar 14 15:21:38 200464.140.158.247 Plum Island is located off the northeastern tip of New York's Long = LAB 257-------- Original Message --------Subject: [apfn-1] Governments Secret Plum Island Germ LaboratoryDate: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:48:51 -0700From: envaxLab 257 : The Disturbing Story of the Governments Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory http://www.medicine-book.com/Lab_257__The_Disturbing_Story_of_the_Governments_Secret_Plum_Island_Germ_Laboratory_0060011416.html =====================================================From The Critics Publisher's WeeklyThis strong first effort by New York lawyer Carroll centers on a U.S. government biological research center devoted to studying such exotic and virulent diseases as African swine fever, Rift Valley fever, foot-and-mouth disease and West Nile virus. Plum Island is quietly nestled a mere two miles off of Long Island, 85 miles from New York City, and Carroll argues convincingly that the island is dangerously insecure. Based on sedulous research into declassified government files and interviews with Plum Island scientists and employees, he offers clear and convincing evidence that Plum Island is rife with the potential for a catastrophic disaster either from an accident or, equally frightening, terrorist action. Carroll raises two chilling questions: Is there a connection between Lyme disease and Plum Island research? (Old Lyme, Conn., the location of the disease's initial 1975 outbreak, is close to Plum Island.) And what about West Nile virus, which also suddenly appeared in close proximity to Plum Island? Carroll offers clear descriptions of the dangers inherent in studying deadly viruses that could infect untold numbers of humans, disrupt the food supply or cripple an entire industry-dangers heightened by a lack of even minimally adequate security. The author acknowledges that the times demand that the U.S. have a research facility like the one at Plum Island and ends this provocative book with a list of reasonable, well-conceived suggestions on how to make the research lab safe, or at least safer. Readers will hope that someone takes notice. 16 pages of b&w photos not seen by PW. (On sale Feb. 14) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?endeca=1&isbn=0060011416&itm=5 ====================================================Michael Carroll's friends started to worry. The Long Island, New York lawyer had become obsessed with a small island off the coast of the Hamptons that doesn't exist on most maps. That's because Plum Island is the home to a federal government germ laboratory that is shrouded in secrecy. For the last decade, Carroll has been investigating the lab, and its dubious projects. After World War II, a classified Pentagon program called "Project Paperclip" brought over Nazi scientist Dr. Erich Traub, a veteran of Himmler's "Cancer Research Program," the cover name for the Nazis' gruesome germ warfare experiments. Traub would find a home at Plum Island, where he developed some of the nastiest diseases known to man in still classified experiments, some of which included the use of ticks as biological weapons carriers. http://www.guerrillanews.com/sci-tech/doc3953.html ==========================================What you don’t know can kill you… LAB 257 is a story of medical and biological experimentation and achievement, shadowed by concealment, carelessness and poor management. Off the North Fork of Long Island, within sight of the sailors, Hamptons vacationers and passengers of the Connecticut ferry, lies a bucolic little island that holds some of the deadliest pathogens known to man. It is Plum Island, a historic place that has been an Indian outpost, a farm, a coastal defense fort, an army training facility, a mutinous factory, and a biological warfare laboratory. Today it is the site of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal Disease Research Center. There animals are regularly infected with lethal viruses—African Swine Fever, Japanese Encephalitis, Rift Valley Fever, Foot and Mouth Disease—then studied, killed, and dissected in the name of research. They are then incinerated and buried in massive pits. The experiments and research conducted on the island are designed to protect the nation’s $90 billion livestock industry from disease and destruction. But what really goes on behind the walls of this secret government installation has been anybody’s guess -- until now. http://www.harpercollins.com/hc/features/special/lab/ =====================================USDA Research at thePlum Island Animal Disease CenterAt the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has an important job.We work to protect farm animals, farmers and ranchers, the nation's farm economy and export markets... and your food supply.Plum Island is located off the northeastern tip of New York's Long Island. USDA activities at Plum Island are carried out by scientists and veterinarians with the department's Agricultural Research Service and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.We're proud of our role as America's first line of defense against foreign animal diseases.We're equally proud of our safety record. Not once in our nearly 50 years of operation has an animal pathogen escaped from the island http://www.ars.usda.gov/plum/ =======================================The Leonard Lopate Show - Germs in our MistNew York lawyer Michael C. Carroll is on the Leonard Lopate Show today to share his concerns that the research facility is dangerously insecure. He thinks that there might even be a link between Plum Island research and outbreaks of Lyme disease and the West Nile virus. Next is a discussion with The Atlantic Monthly's James Fallows on why post-war planning in Iraq isn’t going very smoothly. Then Jay Griffiths tells why there’s more to time than clocks. And prolific writer Jim Shepard shares his new novel and his new short story collection. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/03032004 =============================================== Search Lab 257: http://www.google.com/search?q=Laboratory+257+secret+lab+book&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N =====================================================IT'S NOT WHAT WE KNOW, IT'S WHAT WE DON'T KNOW!THE SECRETS OF BOHEMIAN GROVE (NEW 3/14/04) www.apfn.org/apfn/grove.htm Antibiotic-contaminated shrimp------ — josephnewman, Sun Mar 14 17:20 JUMBO TRADE WAR — John McQuaid, Sun Mar 14 17:35 U.S. plans big purchase of new anthrax vaccine — Washington Post, Sun Mar 14 15:55
Plum Island is located off the northeastern tip of New York's Long = LAB 257-------- Original Message --------Subject: [apfn-1] Governments Secret Plum Island Germ LaboratoryDate: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:48:51 -0700From: envaxLab 257 : The Disturbing Story of the Governments Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory http://www.medicine-book.com/Lab_257__The_Disturbing_Story_of_the_Governments_Secret_Plum_Island_Germ_Laboratory_0060011416.html =====================================================From The Critics Publisher's WeeklyThis strong first effort by New York lawyer Carroll centers on a U.S. government biological research center devoted to studying such exotic and virulent diseases as African swine fever, Rift Valley fever, foot-and-mouth disease and West Nile virus. Plum Island is quietly nestled a mere two miles off of Long Island, 85 miles from New York City, and Carroll argues convincingly that the island is dangerously insecure. Based on sedulous research into declassified government files and interviews with Plum Island scientists and employees, he offers clear and convincing evidence that Plum Island is rife with the potential for a catastrophic disaster either from an accident or, equally frightening, terrorist action. Carroll raises two chilling questions: Is there a connection between Lyme disease and Plum Island research? (Old Lyme, Conn., the location of the disease's initial 1975 outbreak, is close to Plum Island.) And what about West Nile virus, which also suddenly appeared in close proximity to Plum Island? Carroll offers clear descriptions of the dangers inherent in studying deadly viruses that could infect untold numbers of humans, disrupt the food supply or cripple an entire industry-dangers heightened by a lack of even minimally adequate security. The author acknowledges that the times demand that the U.S. have a research facility like the one at Plum Island and ends this provocative book with a list of reasonable, well-conceived suggestions on how to make the research lab safe, or at least safer. Readers will hope that someone takes notice. 16 pages of b&w photos not seen by PW. (On sale Feb. 14) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?endeca=1&isbn=0060011416&itm=5 ====================================================Michael Carroll's friends started to worry. The Long Island, New York lawyer had become obsessed with a small island off the coast of the Hamptons that doesn't exist on most maps. That's because Plum Island is the home to a federal government germ laboratory that is shrouded in secrecy. For the last decade, Carroll has been investigating the lab, and its dubious projects. After World War II, a classified Pentagon program called "Project Paperclip" brought over Nazi scientist Dr. Erich Traub, a veteran of Himmler's "Cancer Research Program," the cover name for the Nazis' gruesome germ warfare experiments. Traub would find a home at Plum Island, where he developed some of the nastiest diseases known to man in still classified experiments, some of which included the use of ticks as biological weapons carriers. http://www.guerrillanews.com/sci-tech/doc3953.html ==========================================What you don’t know can kill you… LAB 257 is a story of medical and biological experimentation and achievement, shadowed by concealment, carelessness and poor management. Off the North Fork of Long Island, within sight of the sailors, Hamptons vacationers and passengers of the Connecticut ferry, lies a bucolic little island that holds some of the deadliest pathogens known to man. It is Plum Island, a historic place that has been an Indian outpost, a farm, a coastal defense fort, an army training facility, a mutinous factory, and a biological warfare laboratory. Today it is the site of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal Disease Research Center. There animals are regularly infected with lethal viruses—African Swine Fever, Japanese Encephalitis, Rift Valley Fever, Foot and Mouth Disease—then studied, killed, and dissected in the name of research. They are then incinerated and buried in massive pits. The experiments and research conducted on the island are designed to protect the nation’s $90 billion livestock industry from disease and destruction. But what really goes on behind the walls of this secret government installation has been anybody’s guess -- until now. http://www.harpercollins.com/hc/features/special/lab/ =====================================USDA Research at thePlum Island Animal Disease CenterAt the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has an important job.We work to protect farm animals, farmers and ranchers, the nation's farm economy and export markets... and your food supply.Plum Island is located off the northeastern tip of New York's Long Island. USDA activities at Plum Island are carried out by scientists and veterinarians with the department's Agricultural Research Service and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.We're proud of our role as America's first line of defense against foreign animal diseases.We're equally proud of our safety record. Not once in our nearly 50 years of operation has an animal pathogen escaped from the island http://www.ars.usda.gov/plum/ =======================================The Leonard Lopate Show - Germs in our MistNew York lawyer Michael C. Carroll is on the Leonard Lopate Show today to share his concerns that the research facility is dangerously insecure. He thinks that there might even be a link between Plum Island research and outbreaks of Lyme disease and the West Nile virus. Next is a discussion with The Atlantic Monthly's James Fallows on why post-war planning in Iraq isn’t going very smoothly. Then Jay Griffiths tells why there’s more to time than clocks. And prolific writer Jim Shepard shares his new novel and his new short story collection. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/03032004 =============================================== Search Lab 257: http://www.google.com/search?q=Laboratory+257+secret+lab+book&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N =====================================================IT'S NOT WHAT WE KNOW, IT'S WHAT WE DON'T KNOW!THE SECRETS OF BOHEMIAN GROVE (NEW 3/14/04) www.apfn.org/apfn/grove.htm
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