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amiga
Nov 23 1999, 3:00 am show
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My partner, Author William Thomas, and myself
have done an indepth study
of the Plum Island Animal Diagnostic Center,
located almost 2 miles off
the Eastern Tip of Long Island.
We have documented a horrific history of
carelessness and safety
violations. The latest was found in the EPA
Enforcement Database, 1999.
Yet, a couple of months after the violations, High
Priority Violator
RCRA and Significant Violator CAA, Plum Island is
appealing to the
public for a "so-called" upgrade to biolevel 4.
Plum Island is A BIOCONTAINMENT LEVEL 5
facility. It is on the same par
with the United Nations biolevel 5 facility in Trieste,
Italy.
Incidently, not far from the biolevel 5 facility in
Trieste, was an
outbreak of WEST NILE(like), Fall 1998.
According to protocol, samples from Animal disease
outbreaks overseas
are sent to Plum Island. The Italian "Equid"
outbreak involved horses.
According to Dr. Mertyn Malkinson, samples were
taken.
Plum Island officials deny ever having encephalitis
at the lab. YET, I
have a document that shows Plum Island Doctors
were testing vaccine for
Japanese Encephalitis on HUMAN VOLUNTEERS. I
also have documented that
there were indeed porcine with encephalitis at the
facility.
Why is Plum Island operating stealthly at level 5?
Why is there a push
now, after the West Nile/Kunjin like outbreak? Why
are people not being
told about the power outage at Plum Island in the
late Winter/Early
Spring?
STV Inc. installed an undersea fiberoptic cable,
through which all
power, even backup and telecommunication will
flow. During the
finalization of that cable, POWER TO PLUM ISLAND
WAS CUT.
Biocontainment is maintained through negative
pressurization of labs. In
other words, as you go toward the center of the
main facility, where the
exotic disease lab is located, there is more
depressurization. Without
power the negative pressure could equalize and
cause loss of
biocontainment.
Pathogens, very much like the altered strain of west
nile/kunjin could
escape.
Biolevel 5 containment in addition to negative
pressure labs, relies on
island status. Plum island is not quite 2 miles
from the mainland. Also,
biolevel 5 means that there are 2 or more
devistating diseases that are
not endemic to the area and which would be
considered illegal to have in
the Country. An example would be Foot and Mouth
Disease and African
Swine Fever.
After New York was hit with non-endemic diseases
like Malaria (boy scout
camp on Eastern Long Island, West Nile/Kunjin),
we began to hear that
Plum Island wanted to upgrade to biolevel 4.
Biolevel 4 meaning the
diseases at the lab have NO KNOWN CURE or
PREVENTATIVE VACCINE.
I have documents from the 1998 and also 1999
meetings of the USAHA. At
those meetings, during a few seperate committees,
I have minutes where
Dr. Mile Kiley calls Plum Island "the only
biocontainment level 5
facility in the U.S." Also at the 1998 meeting,
previous Director
Alfonso Torres, who incidently resigned this Spring,
also referred to
Plum Island as a biolevel 5 facility. Dr. Kiley went
on to describe
biocontainment level 1 through 5.
He mentioned that Plum Island needs funds to
upgrade the facility just
to maintain its present biocontainment. In other
words, Plum needs money
to operate safely.
I have been asking why Plum Island will not tell
people that it is a
level 5 facility. I can e-mail documents to prove
this, if anyone is
interested.
I have communicated with the World's best and
brightest Scientists re:
West Nile like. I have an e-mail from Dr. Lipkin in
which he describes
the profile of the virus.
Will Thomas and I have been interviewed on Art
Bell, Jeff Rense, David
Oates, and Alan Hutner Shows. We have an
upcoming interview with Rob
McConnel.
We cannot do this alone. Please, people, ask some
questions. Wrtite to
your representatives in Congress for some answers.
Plum Island is not a New York issue. It is a crow
flight away from most
of you.
I have all of the documents for every allegation that
I have made here.
I also have sources. I even have a source who spoke
about taking
submarine training course, while in the Navy, at
Plum Island. Given its
proximity to our sub base at Groton, Ct. I was not
surprised. I would
also imagine that some of the more deadly
pathogens are brought in via
sub. Possibly, directly or via sub to Groton, then
onto a Government
Ferry to Plum.
Why the dishonesty? I have visited many biolevel 3
labs. Never had a
problem with access. Why, then, is Plum Island
veiled in secrecy?
Sandy Hays the representative from Plum Island
did grant me an
interview, however, it was over the phone. I
requested a tour of the
Island, but, it was denied.
Please, if you are interested, ask questions. Call
your local newspapers
and radio programs. Will Thomas and myself have
documents and are
available for interviews.
Thank You,
Patricia Doyle
a...@bestweb.net
please contact me for info

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