Strictly off limits to the public, plum island is home to virginal beaches, cliffs, forests. Lyme is just a few miles north of plum island which would make it ground zero for any possible disease that escaped the confines of the animal disease center. In 1975, 39 children of lyme, connecticut experienced symptoms similar. Mar 06, 2020 the plum island animal disease centre was opened in 1954 with the aim of developing ways to protect us livestock from infection. Breeze, plum islands laboratory director from 1987 to 1995. The governments secret lab 257 the horrific secrets of. Home to highsecurity lab and source of rumors, plum island. The officially ignored connection between lyme disease and. Yet it showed up in new york and connecticut, infecting people with lyme disease and killing. How the government created lyme disease plum island. Plum island is located off the coast of long island, new york. Excellent book that did not leave anything out about plum island and the atrocities committed there. The august 6, 2002 journal of degenerative diseases revealed the former war dept.
With lyme disease and other tickborne diseases exploding in the united stateswith an estimated 300,000 to 437,000 new cases diagnosed each year and 1020 percent of all patients suffering. House orders pentagon to reveal if it turned ticks into. That sold me and i then read straight through all of the books in the series. Bradleys book, the lyme conspiracy features a character, ben whose job it is to keep us military secrets, well, secret. Department of agriculture, is dedicated to research on plant. The plum island facility, operated by the department of agriculture, conducted research on footandmouth disease fmd of cattle, one of traubs areas of expertise. The creature, a quadruped of indeterminate size, was dead when discovered, and was assumed by some to have come from plum island due to the currents and proximity to the mainland. Nov 07, 2011 many books have featured lyme disease as a device to criticize government health policy in recent years, with varying success as works of fiction. And its not the sandy beaches and swaying plum trees theyre after.
Carroll draws compelling causal links between plum island and the introduction of lyme disease, west nile virus, and duck enteritis, all nonnative germs that wreaked sudden havoc in north america, and all germs that plum island. And plum island just so happens to be a former center for biowarfare and bioweapons research. Was plum island the garden of eden for lyme disease. Strictly off limits to the public, plum island is home to virginal beaches. Erich traub 27 june 1906 18 may 1985 was a german veterinarian, scientist and virologist who specialized in footandmouth disease, rinderpest and newcastle disease. Apr 01, 1997 so, i read the first book of the series, plum island. This book also contains information about tests performed on u.
Plum island is located off the coast of long island, new. West nile virus in 1999, lyme disease in 1975, and dutch duck plague in 1967. The mysterious lab off new yorks shore apr 2, 2004. The disturbing story of the governments secret plum. It has been alleged that the united states performed bioweapons research on plum island. Some observers believe lyme disease may have originated on plum island. Newbys book reaches the same conclusion as carrolls, namely that the most likely source of diseased ticks is plum island. L ess than 2 miles off the east end of long island and 85 miles from new york city lies an unimposing 840acre island, unidenti.
The connections among lyme disease, weaponized ticks, plum island, mycoplasma, other hardtodiagnose diseases and bioterrorism now, lyme just so happens to be right across from plum island, new york. Lab 257, plum island,animal disease research, usda, west nile virus, lyme disease, dutch duck plague after the recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the uk was shown to be the result. Well, this proves that lyme disease, at least its ancestor, was around for roughly 5,232 years before the initial idea of plum island was conceived. In his book the belarus secret, loftus referred to work done on plum island in the early 1950s in which nazi scientists were experimenting on diseased ticks. The plum island animal disease center piadc, that is now managed by the u. Next, the program sets forth the case of steve nostruman early lyme disease victim whose reading of loftus book spurred him to begin inquiring about the plum island traub connection. Well, it just so happens that there is a biological testing facility named plum island. The disturbing story of the governments secret germ. Lyme disease is just one of at least four infectious disease outbreaks that have occurred in the vicinity of plum island.
Plum island corey book 1 is a touch predictable in the s in july of 2017, i chanced upon john corey, the character in demilles main series, in the collection of short mysteries of that year entitled matchup. It is a federal facility, the nations most important lab for combating infectious animal diseases. Traub was offered a leading position at plum island in 1958 which he officially declined. Carroll, a lawyer who admits he has no background in science, contends in his book that lyme disease was fostered on plum island and spread. Jul 17, 2019 the book alleges biowarfare research involving ticks took place at fort detrick, maryland, and plum island, new yorkboth areas where cdc maps note the disease is very prevalent, but the cdc. Plum island, off the tip of new yorks long island, was opened in 1954 with the stated intent of protecting american livestock from animal diseases such as hoofandmouth disease. Building 257, also known as lab 257, was a united states biological warfare research. Deer are notoriously good swimmers, and it would not be very hard at all for one, infected with lyme for experimentation, to escape the island. The disturbing story of the governments secret plum island germ laboratory, compiled from declassified documents and numerous interviews with those with insider knowledge, in which he goes into detail on what he claims was the epicenter of lyme disease. I have lyme disease and this book revealed allot about just. Carroll draws compelling causal links between plum island and the introduction of lyme disease, west nile virus, and duck enteritis, all nonnative germs that wreaked sudden havoc in north america, and all germs that plum island scientists were allegedly working with.
Oct 25, 20 lab 257 also maintains that there is a link between the plum island center and the emergence of lyme disease. A 2004 new york times article on carrols book quotes roger g. The book of genesis, beginnings, places human origin in the garden of eden. Sep 09, 2017 avril lavigne opens up about her struggle with lyme disease good morning america abc news duration. Where lyme disease came from and why it eludes treatment. To understand where lyme disease actually got started in this country. The book plum island is fiction as are many nonscientific articles written about the island. Lurking in the dark waters of long island sound is a mysterious place known as plum island. The lyme disease cure new book, powerful information.
Governments secret lab 257 horrific secrets of plum island. Carroll, has alleged a connection between plum island animal disease center and the outbreaks of three infectious diseases. A more recent theory is that lyme disease escaped from plum island, which may be the most plausible conspiracy theory yet. Feb, 2019 plum island houses the only footandmouth disease vaccine bank in north america, which maintains a variety of vaccines that have been developed to combat the more than 60 different strains of the disease. Those vaccines could be deployed in the event that the disease began to spread in the u. In lab 257, a book published in 2004, lawyer michael c. Lyme disease takes its name from the village of lyme, in connecticut, where the disease was first identified in the late 1970s. The book advances the idea that lyme disease outbreaks have originated at.
Lab 257 claims errors at the facility caused lyme disease outbreaks and. The ones we have placed our trust into to protect us. The officially ignored link between lyme disease and plum. There is a very good possibility that lyme disease came from the plum island biowarfare facility. The book advances the idea that lyme disease originated at plum island and conjectures several means by which animal diseases could have left the island. David weld, the executive director of the american lyme disease. The secret history of lyme disease and biological weapons. The site there is officially called the plum island animal disease center. Plum island as i stated, the first case of lyme disease was located in old lyme, conneticut in 1975. Carroll argues that outbreaks of the dutch duck plague virus that devastated duck farms on eastern long island in the 1960s, lyme disease.
Lyme is just a few miles north of plum island which would make it ground zero for any possible disease that escaped the confines of the animal disease. The disturbing story of the governments secret plum island germ laboratory. Pentagon may have released weaponized ticks that helped. May 17, 2019 plum island experimented with the lone star tick, whose habitat at the time was confined to texas. And what about west nile virus, which also suddenly appeared in close proximity to plum island. The facility was originally created to counter the anticrop and antilivestock diseases other countries after ww ii were developin i recall reading nelson demilles plum island but didnt think there was an. Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium borrelia burgdorferi.
This book contains much more then the history of plum island and the possible lyme disease west nile virus link. Jun 10, 2012 but the most pervasive story is the one about lyme disease. Deer are notoriously good swimmers, and it would not be very hard at all for one, infected with lyme for experimentation, to escape the island and swim to shore. Plum island, off the tip of new yorks long island, was opened in 1954 with the stated intent of protecting american livestock from animal. The officially ignored connection between lyme disease and plum island melissa dykes sep 09, 2017 lyme disease is one of those illnesses that, unless you have it or know someone who afflicted by it, most people dont know that much about it other than that it is caused by a tick bite. On the few where it can be found, plum island is marked red or yel. The officially ignored link between lyme disease and plum island. Somebody gave steve nostrum a copy of john loftuss the belarus secret at one of his support group meetings. This is despite the fact that researchers at plum island were experimenting with hundreds of thousands of hard and soft ticks on plum island where classified top secret biowarfare research was being carried out by the u. Newby reaches this conclusion on page 224 after mentioning plum island.
Just ten miles off the coast of connecticut, this tiny speck of land has long been rumored to be the epicenter of topsecret biowarfare research. You are more likely to think of it as a place from which distorted animals or animal diseases like lyme disease originate. The mystery, myth and reality of plum island howstuffworks. Did lawmakers demand the pentagon disclose if it developed. Likely the most convincing reason to believe in the dangerous experiments and leaks that occurred at plum island is the fact that lyme disease cases are clustered around plum island according to the cdc. Feb 15, 2004 david weld, the executive director of the american lyme disease foundation in somers, n. It suddenly surfaced 10 miles from plum island in old lyme, connecticut. For the first time, 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. So essentially they feed on animals and human blood and therefore spread the disease.
May 14, 2020 lyme disease was first reported in the united states in the town of old lyme, connecticut, in 1975. Jul 18, 2019 in the 1960s, on an 840acre island at the entrance to long island sound, scientists at the highly guarded plum island animal disease center were at the forefront of u. Coincidentally, evidence suggests that the iceman named oetzi may have died from a heart attack. Plum island, lyme disease and operation paperclip a deadly. The usda facility, known as the plum island animal disease center. Newbys book reaches the same conclusion as carrolls, namely that the most likely source of diseased ticks is plum island, new york. On july 12, 2008, a creature dubbed the montauk monster washed ashore at ditch plains beach near the business district of montauk, new york. So unless every single one of these genospecies of lyme disease were genetically modified on plum island and strategically placed around the united states and even the world, the outbreak of lyme disease in lyme, connecticut and its close proximity to plum island was just a very unlikely coincidence. Is there a connection between lyme disease and plum island research. According to carrolls book, the island and laboratory are also home to slipshod. The book also probes whats in store for plum islands new owner, the department of homeland security, in this age of bioterrorism.