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The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory
by Michael C. Carroll
Book Reviewed by:From the Book Jacket: In the shadow of New York City lies an unimposing 840-acre island unidentified
on most maps. Lab 257 takes you deep inside Plum Island's laboratories
and presents startling revelations including virus outbreaks, biological
meltdowns and the connections between Plum Island, Lyme disease and the West
Nile virus. Based on innumerable declassified government documents, scores
of 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.
Comment: Is there a connection between Lyme disease, West Nile virus and the Department
of Homeland Security's laboratories on Plum Island? According to Michael
Carroll's apparently thorough research, yes there is, and those aren't the only
concerns - add to these biological meltdowns, infected workers denied assistance
in diagnosis, flushing of contaminated sewage into local waters, and it's
difficult to be anything but concerned. Is Plum Island an accident waiting
to happen? It would seem so.
The following quote comes from
Mario Cuomo, former Governor of New York (1982-1994).
"If we're lucky, someone in the media will read this carefully
researched, chilling expose of a potential catastrophe and force the government
to do something about it. If not, Mike Carroll's brilliant work will have been
wasted and we may be the victims, once again, of government inadvertence."
Useful Links: Information about
West Nile Virus and
Lyme
Disease.
This review
first ran in the September 1, 2005
issue of BookBrowse Recommends.
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