Plum Island
There are those that believe that there is something being hidden from the general public on Plum Island. Plum island is a small remote island in the Long Island sound. There is much dispute in articles about what Plum island actually is. This site provides one of the inside looks at why Plum Island was started and what it was used for. It also provides some insight as to some of the outbreaks that have been supposedly caused by the illnesses contained on the island. It also explains how the use of the island has changed over the years from World War I and II and on.
http://www.trutv.com/conspiracy/government-lies/plum-island/secret-disease-research.html
This next site talks more about how Plum Island really is unsafe to exist. If Plum Island was to be bombed by terrorists the amount of diseases that would be released would be detrimental to the health of the United States. It also explains that because the buildings and structures are so old they are unsafe to have an need to be replaced, but then where will all of its contents go while it is being re-built?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57450054/plumbing-the-mysteries-of-plum-island/
Now these sources are all fine and dandy but they are all saying that the island was made for these terrible purposes. According to the Homeland Security, it was started for purely research purposes, to help protect America's cattle and health.
http://www.dhs.gov/st-piadc
http://www.trutv.com/conspiracy/government-lies/plum-island/secret-disease-research.html
This next site talks more about how Plum Island really is unsafe to exist. If Plum Island was to be bombed by terrorists the amount of diseases that would be released would be detrimental to the health of the United States. It also explains that because the buildings and structures are so old they are unsafe to have an need to be replaced, but then where will all of its contents go while it is being re-built?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57450054/plumbing-the-mysteries-of-plum-island/
Now these sources are all fine and dandy but they are all saying that the island was made for these terrible purposes. According to the Homeland Security, it was started for purely research purposes, to help protect America's cattle and health.
http://www.dhs.gov/st-piadc
Lyme's Disease
After the break out of Lymes disease in 1975 in Lyme, Connecticut, some fingers pointed in the direction of Plum Island. The center there has been reported to work on infected ticks as a weapon in bio warfare. Some people still debate the cause, some reference that there was Lymes disease detected in 1900's across Europe and the United States, not as extreme but in slight relation. This is an article about a theory of how Lymes disease originated from Plum island.
http://www.examiner.com/article/did-lyme-disease-originate-out-of-plum-island
http://www.examiner.com/article/did-lyme-disease-originate-out-of-plum-island