-Caveat Lector- The Mysterious Plum Island Laboratories by Bill Howard Ever since the U.S. Army turned over Fort Terry a.k.a., Plum Island to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1954, Plum Island has been a mystery to the local inhabitants living close by. Up to that time, it had been a biowarfare laboratory for the U.S. Army. When the Army closed up shop, it handed over a new lab and 134 strains of 13 viruses collected from every continent of the world to the Department of Agriculture. In 1969, President Nixon officially ended the biowar research program and Plum Island officially became an Animal Foreign Disease dia-gnostic facility. Plum Island is located 2 miles off the tip of the North Fork of Long Island, 13 miles from the submarine base at Groton, CT, and 113 miles from New York City. By law, Plum Island is the only laboratory in the United States that is allowed to work with live Foot and Mouth virus. And they are the only laboratory that can diagnose foot and mouth disease. Since the early 80’s Plum Island’s laboratories have been the store house for North America’s Food and Mouth Disease vaccine serving the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Plum Island is offically a Bio Safety level 3 laboratory, and they have asked congress for money to upgrade to a Bio safety level 4 laboratory. The stated reason for this upgrade is so they can handle large animal experiments, and also for the study of Zoonotic diseases. Zoonotic disease means a disease that is transferable from animals to humans. The par-ticular disearse that they would be studing is the Nipha virus that effects pigs and man. It attacks the brain and eats holes in it making it look like swiss cheese. The critics of Plum Island are against the large animal experiments because, they say, the last time large animal experiments were done there, there was a bioaccident and Food and Mouth disease was allowed to escape the island. The critics claim it was through care-lessness and Plum Island stopped doing large animal research, voluntarily. Now we learn that horses have been studied and infected at the Plum Island laboratories. However, this is not the only accident that has been linked to the laboratories as Plum Island. In 1999, 2 boys at a Boy Scout camp in Baiting Hollow contacted Malaria. The offical response to this was that someone brought it back to the U.S. from abroad. Also in 1999 there was an outbreak of Equestrian Encep-halitis in which 22 horses were infected and 8 died. This happened in Jamesport. Dr. Breeze, the laboratory’s directer at that time, stated that the laboratory was studing Venezuelan Equine Encephalom-yelities. (most interesting—ed.) In 1978 there was an outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease on Plum island. The entire island had to be evacuated and all the livestock distroyed. Another distrubing bit of information is that the workers on the island have been inoculated with unapproved FDA drugs to prevent them from contracting the diseases that they are handling and studing. This is a case of USDA using it’s own employees as human guinea pigs. Does anyone from Plum Island know or care what the long range side effects are from these drugs and/or vaccines? Sounds farmilar, doesn’t it? Rift Valley Fever or West Nile disease has been studied at Plum Island since 1979. In 1999 there was an outbreak of West Nile disease in Manhattan and on Long Island. Is there a connection? Many people think so. In 1981, the researchers at Plum Island were researching the African Swine Fever in conjunction with AIDS. 47 UASA employees were tested during the research and at the completon of the research, 6 of the employees had contacted the African swine Fever. The African Swine Fever is not supposted to be a “zoonotic disease.” Does this mean that the people at Plum Island are engaged in DNA sequencing or Genomics? Yes, it does. When Dr. Huxsoll was asked about it, he said, “We are working on Genomics of some of the agents that we work with like Foot and Mouth Disease and African Swine Fever. Because we are interested in looking at the variability of one strain to another and what the genes that make up the organism are responsible for.It is possible to tell by looking at one those (diseases) with sequencing and getting all those genes all lined up to separate which strain came from Africa versus which one comes from Asia.” There is a building on Plum Island that has a plaque on it reading, “Guinea Pig Colony.” When Carlos Santoyos, Plum Island’s Assistant Director was asked why that particular building was called that, he said. “Because we used to clone guinea pigs there.” So we know that high powered research on viruses and cloning have been going on there. But, this laboratory is very careless with their safety as we have shown by the above examples. Plum Island has a terrible safety record and has been cited by the EPA as recently as the spring of 1999. In March 1999, Plum Island installed an undersea fiberoptic cable. During the finalization of the cable, all power to Plum Island was lost. Plum Island needs power to maintain biocontainment. During Hurricane Bob (sept 1999) Plum Island’s power was out for 18 hours and that their backup generator was down, and had been down for the pervious 3 months. This means that their diseases were defrosting during those 18 hours and that their negative air pressure, which keeps the diseases in, was not functioning. It is very hard to believe that the backup power to a facility as senitive as this one could be down for 3 months! It’s hard to believe that USDA didn’t give them money to get their generators fixed! Could virsuses have escaped during this period? The answer would have to be, YES! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER =========CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! 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