Infectious disease experts, as well as the Department of Homeland Security, which runs the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, dismissed the possibility that Lyme was created as a biological weapon.

scientists at the highly guarded Plum Island Animal Disease Center were at the forefront of U.S. biological-weapons research. Specifically, they sought to create pathogens that could be deployed s ...

“There’s so much work that goes into getting our food safe,” says Dr. Ferdinand Torres, head of the Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostics Lab at Plum Island. Experts there regularly test ...

PLUM ISLAND, N.Y. — A human body has washed ashore on New York’s tiny Plum Island, where a U.S. government lab studies dangerous animal diseases. Police say a security guard discovered the ...

There are plenty of myths about Plum Island, but the island's real early history, which includes roles in conflicts from Colonial times through World War II, has at times been just as mysterious.

Plum Island has been off limits to the general public because it’s the site of research into the world’s most deadly animal diseases, including swine flu and hoof-and-mouth disease ...

That’s because on Plum Island scientists study some ... are vials of rinderpest and foot-and-mouth disease virus, two of the most feared animal contagions of all time. A single detection of ...

More people wanted to go,” she said. Officially, the “Plum Island Animal Disease Center remains fully operational, ahead of the transition of its science mission to the National Bio and Agro ...

PLUM ISLAND, N.Y. (AP) -- A human body has washed ashore on suburban New York's tiny Plum Island, where the U.S. government has an aging laboratory for studying dangerous animal diseases.