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.

Journalists were given a glimpse of the federal Plum Island Animal Disease Center off Long Island, which will be closed within the next decade. Officials are marketing the island to developers.

The Plum Island Animal Disease Center on Plum Island, New York, is shown, Feb. 16, 2004. (AP Photo/Ed Betz, File) The coalition also has found a donor “who is very willing to help with the futur ...

The department has argued that a modernized lab in Kansas that could study diseases affecting both animals and humans is needed and that the Cold War-era Plum Island center, which studies only ...

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 ...

But the Plum Island Animal Disease Center remains open as the new NBAF won’t be handling those dangerous animal pathogens for maybe a year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department ...

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 ...

Robin Holland, the NBAF science transition manager, said that is the case for the Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory. "Because FADDL is moving from Plum Island to here at NBAF ...

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Expanding on the Legacy of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, accessed May 15, 2024 U.S. Department of Homeland Security, The Plum Island Story: Protecting ...