Farmers who produce animal feed would be harmed as well. Meat exports would come to a halt until the disease was eradicated, and consumers might face shortages of meat and dairy products. In the U.S., which hasn't had an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease since 1929, an outbreak of the highly contagious affliction could cause 'billions and billions of dollars' in economic losses, Verrico says, because infected farm animals would have to be culled from herds and destroyed. food supply if they ever spread across the nation's farms. 'I've had questions about Nazi scientists, alien technology and genetically-modified monsters,' says John Verrico, a spokesman for Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate.īut inside the security fences and biocontainment area checkpoints (described in the unredacted parts of this 2007 government report), government researchers work to stave more tangible threats - foreign animal diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease and African swine fever, which have the potential to wreak havoc with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security since 2003. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the 1950s and under the control of the U.S.

Some have speculated that animal-human hybrids and biological warfare weapons are being developed inside the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, opened by the U.S. USDA/National Archives and Records Administrationįor years, plenty of wild rumors and conspiracy theories have swirled around an 840-acre (340-hectare) speck of land a mile-and-a-half off New York's Long Island, home to a high-security federal research facility that Internet-fueled urban legends have made into the East Coast's equivalent of Area 51. Department of Agriculture as a facility for research into animal pathogens. OL22908W Page_number_confidence 94.61 Pages 538 Pdf_module_version 0.0.22 Ppi 500 Republisher_date 20130311025413 Republisher_operator Scandate 20130308075047 Scanner aerial view of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC), established in 1954 off the coast of New York, was taken in October, 1971. Urn:lcp:plumisland00demi_0:lcpdf:eb8c3ef0-9875-4267-b27b-7b7666a98a2b Extramarc Brown University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier plumisland00demi_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0rr36h7x Invoice 11 Isbn 9780446515061Ġ44651506X Lccn 97007221 Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.19 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary OL661765M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 06:17:32 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA163204 Boxid_2 CH132705 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīlogistics Edition 1st printing.

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