Lab 257
Strictly off limits to the public, Plum Island is home to virginal beaches, cliffs, forests, ponds-and the deadliest germs that have ever roamed the Earth.
Nestled in the Hamptons, the fashionable summer playground for 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 where 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, reveals the stunning true nature and checkered history of Plum Island. It shows that the seemingly bucolic Plum 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.
For the first time, Lab 257 takes you deep inside the secret world of Plum Island and presents a startling revelations, including virus outbreaks, biological meltdowns, infected workers who are denied treatment by the government, the 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.
Lab 257 changes forever our current understanding of Plum Island-a place that is, in the words of one insider, 'a biological Three Mile Island.'
Strictly off limits to the public, Plum Island is home to virginal beaches, cliffs, forests, ponds-and the deadliest germs that have ever roamed the Earth.
Nestled in the Hamptons, the fashionable summer playground for 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 where 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, reveals the stunning true nature and checkered history of Plum Island. It shows that the seemingly bucolic Plum 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.
For the first time, Lab 257 takes you deep inside the secret world of Plum Island and presents a startling revelations, including virus outbreaks, biological meltdowns, infected workers who are denied treatment by the government, the 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.
Lab 257 changes 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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