Reddit reviews Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory

I assume you already know about Plum Island aka Lab 257?
Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory https://www.amazon.com/dp/006078184X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_eoBADbQZF1YKN

The book Lab 257 is a great history of plum island and how their poor safety procedures could have led to several disease outbreaks in the area including introducing Lyme disease to America (Plum Island is only a couple miles off the coast of Lyme, CT).

You should definitely check out this book:

Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory

From amazon:

>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 planet.

>Lab 257 blows the lid off the stunning true nature and checkered history of Plum Island.

>Based on declassified government documents, in-depth interviews, and access to Plum Island itself, this is an eye-opening, suspenseful account of a federal government germ laboratory gone terribly wrong.

>Lab 257 takes you deep inside this secret world and presents startling revelations on virus outbreaks, biological meltdowns, infected workers, the periodic flushing of contaminated raw sewage into area waters, and the insidious connections between Plum Island, Lyme disease, and the deadly West Nile virus.

And a review:

>Reading an official press release from Plum Island is fairly benign. What's not easy is to read, however, is the litany of diseases handled incompetently there: Ebola, Marburg hemorrhagic fever, foot-and-mouth disease, Rift Valley fever virus, anthrax, plague, Entebbe, Zagazig 501, typhoid, diphtheria, E. coli, AIDS, polio, Japanese encephalitis, swine flu, mad cow disease, virulent influenza, Coxsackie B-5 virus, louping ill, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, Newcastle disease, vesicular stomatitis virus, contagious ecthyma, Nairobi sheep disease, and anthrax.

>Not all of these viruses have been contained. And that doesn't even take into account the various other test tube concoctions that cause encephalatic brain seizures, massive hemorrhaging, blindness, and death. Scary stuff, right?

>Indeed, it's easy to make connections between Plum Island and three major disease outbreaks (West Nile virus - 1999, Lyme disease - 1975, Dutch duck plague - 1967).

>When looking at a map that displays the number of Lyme disease cases in the US, the results are staggering. There is a heavier concentration of Lyme disease within a small radius of Plum Island than anywhere else in the U.S., which doesn't come as much of a surprise when considering they bred and infected deer ticks and Lone Star ticks by the thousands.

And speaking of Nazis...

Plum Island, Lyme Disease and Operation Paperclip - A Deadly Triangle

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