Who would ever have thought that bugs can escape from research labs and infect people and animals living close by. Posted by savebabe (Member # 9847) on :
Hmmm..... Sounds a lot like Plum Island.
This is very scary.
Posted by GenaD (Member # 11988) on :
Savebabe and other Long Islanders (and all Lymies, really),
I'm assuming you guys read Lab 257? If not, you must read!
Gena
Posted by Greatcod (Member # 7002) on :
Seriousy, anyone who doesn't believe that serious pathogens cannot escape from laboratories has to consider this Hoof and Mouth outbreak, and in 2007. And the Lyme outbreak started in the early 70's, when biocontinment facilites were far less secure. This English lab is four miles from the farm where the oubreak started; Lyme CT is seven miles from Plum Island. Given that Plum was the source has never been absolutely confirmed, and may never be--the Feds have never opened the documents to researchers, it still has to be given very serious consideration as to why the neurological monster that is Lyme Disease is still presented as an easy to cure no brainer with few serious consequences thirty years later.
Posted by Vermont_Lymie (Member # 9780) on :
Yes, I saw this story. Very alarming.
I do want to know more about Plum Island, having become so ill after a tick bite on long island. Guess I will have to read that book!
Posted by hostbody (Member # 12695) on :
google on Operation Paper Clip
Posted by treepatrol (Member # 4117) on :
These most bright and intelligent people are idiots Posted by ChrisBtheLymie (Member # 8916) on :
Yeah it is worrying, especially as I live just 30 or so miles from the lab. It just shows that these things do and probably have happened.
![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
![[Frown]](frown.gif)