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03/21/2010 03:02 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Plum Island For Sale - Any Takers? [ link to cryptome.org] [ link to en.wikipedia.org] [ link to www.rense.com] WHAT IS PLUM ISLAND?
Plum Island, formerly Ft. Terry, is an animal facility comprising various labs. FADDL, or the Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Lab is a diagnostic facility that is a full service diagnostic laboratory receiving samples from around the world. PIADC, the Plum Island Animal Disease Center comprises various laboratory facilities and studies exotic diseases of animals. It was designated a biolevel 5 facility, now mandated by Congress which enabled Plum Island to study and research diseases and vaccines for diseases that would not be allowed in the Continental US. The factor allowing for this biolevel 5 designation is its island status.
Plum Island uses biolevel 3 safety measures for biocontainment. Some of the measures include negative pressurization labs and employees taking many showers.
Plum Island has been seeking an upgrade to biolevel 4.
A biolevel 4 facility would entail self-contained respirator suits and pathogens for which there are no known cures or vaccines. This also would enable them to work with zoonotic diseases. A zoontoic disease is a disease that jumps species barrier. In other words, a disease of animals that would also infect humans such as Nipah virus, a new paramyoxivirus that killed 100 people in Malaysia in 1999 and caused the slaughter of thousands of pigs.
Theoretically, Plum Island would be able to work with Ebola and other virulent viruses, bacteria and mycoplasma.
The community around Plum Island is very skeptical of this upgrade as Plum Island had been featured in many news reports over the years for safety violations. In 1994, dead lab birds had been found outside, in open air, in the corridor of the Exotic Disease lab. Plum Island officially denied research with birds, but I have confirmation from a Plum Island worker, that they did, indeed, research birds as vectors of disease. |
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03/21/2010 03:04 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Plum Island For Sale - Any Takers? Pursuant to the requirements of the National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, and the President's Council on Environmental
Quality Regulations (40 CFR 1500-1508), as implemented by the U.S.
General Services Administration (GSA) Order PBS P 1095.4C, GSA, as the
operational Joint Lead Agency, announces its Notice of Intent (NOI) to
prepare an EIS for the anticipated sale of Plum Island, New York and an
ancillary support facility at Orient Point, New York. The US Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) will act as a Joint Lead Agency in ongoing
consultation with GSA for the NEPA and associated regulatory compliance
activities.
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Corny
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03/21/2010 03:05 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Plum Island For Sale - Any Takers? So, guess you have to ask Hitler's second in command? |
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03/21/2010 03:12 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Plum Island For Sale - Any Takers? So, guess you have to ask Hitler's second in command?
Quoting: Corny 916594WTF?  |
Victoria Ecouter
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05/20/2010 04:16 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Plum Island For Sale - Any Takers? What troubles me about this is that they want to move the lab to Kansas. Really? They want to test animal diseases near large concentrations of cattle? I don't care how "secure" a facility is there is always a leak at some point. Think Lyme Disease. Lyme disease is rampant now. I know two ppl who've contracted it during the last year. |
