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Walnut
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An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in cows in England has been linked to a nearby research laboratory.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6935418.stm

Who would ever have thought that bugs can escape from research labs and infect people and animals living close by. [Eek!]

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savebabe
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Hmmm..... Sounds a lot like Plum Island.

This is very scary.

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GenaD
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Savebabe and other Long Islanders (and all Lymies, really),

I'm assuming you guys read Lab 257? If not, you must read!

Gena

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Greatcod
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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.

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Vermont_Lymie
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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!

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hostbody
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Member # 12695

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google on Operation Paper Clip

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treepatrol
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These most bright and intelligent people are idiots [Frown]

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ChrisBtheLymie
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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.

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