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	DHS: Fact Sheet: Plum Island Animal Disease Center Transition
		PIADC is located on Plum Island, 840 acres that lie 1.5 miles from Orient Point, New York and 9 miles from Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
		Plum Island's contribution to animal disease research dates to 1951, under auspices of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps.
		PIADC conducts research on foreign animal diseases that are not present in the United States.
	www.dhs.gov /xnews/releases/press_release_0176.shtm (681 words)

	Plum Island Animal Disease Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Plum Island is where the USDA operates one of the world's top laboratories for the study of infectious animal diseases.
		Plum Island, which was already a biowar research facility, and, due to its island status, was chosen to conduct the Mycoplasma research.
		The media PR states that Plum Island is a biolevel 3 facility seeking funds to upgrade to biolevel 4.
	cryptome.org /piadc.htm (3871 words)

	GAO-06-132, Plum Island Animal Disease Center: DHS and USDA Are Successfully Coordinating Current Work, but Long-Term ...
		Animal health officials define an exotic or foreign animal disease as an important transmissible livestock or poultry disease believed to be absent from the United States and its territories that has the potential to create a significant health or economic impact.
		Plum Island's scientists identify the pathogens that cause foreign animal diseases and work to develop vaccines to protect U.S. livestock.[Footnote 5] The primary research and diagnostic focus at Plum Island is foreign or exotic diseases that could affect livestock, including cattle, swine, and sheep.
		Plum Island is now part of a broader joint strategy developed by DHS and USDA to protect against the intentional or accidental introduction of foreign animal diseases.
	www.gao.gov /htext/d06132.html (13450 words)

	Plum Island Disease Center Workers On Strike
		The Plum Island lab is one of two run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study animal diseases such as foot and mouth disease and African swine fever.
		Plum Island is known to residents on Long Island's North Fork as Mystery Island and has long been the subject of speculation about the dangerous germs that are studied there.
		A government official familiar with operations at Plum Island cautioned that while questions about the ability of the center to operate effectively were legitimate given the unusual nature of a strike in such a highly sensitive location, union workers had alleged safety abuses in the past to draw attention to their case.
	www.rense.com /general28/pplm.htm (1777 words)

	Plum Island Animal Disease Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Plum Island Animal Disease Center is a United States federal research facility dedicated to the study of foreign animal diseases.
		As a diagnostic facility, PIADC is capable of diagnosing approximately 36 foreign animal diseases and several domestic diseases.
		In 2002, the Plum Island Animal Disease Center was transferred from the United States Department of Agriculture to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plum_Island_Animal_Disease_Center (579 words)

	Plum Island Animal Disease Center
		The Plum Island Animal Disease Center is a Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) facility designed and constructed to work with the most dangerous animal diseases in the world, such as foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), Rinderpest, and African swine fever.
		Plum Island is where the USDA operates one of the world's top laboratories for the study of infectious animal diseases.
		Plum Island, which was already a biowar research facility, and, due to its island status, was chosen to conduct the Mycoplasma research.
	cryptome.sabotage.org /piadc.htm (3871 words)

	Animal Diseases -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Plum Island Animal Disease Center is a United States federal research facility dedicated to the study of animal diseases, particularly foreign animal disease threats.
		The definitions of disorder and disease are similar at-first-glance, however, a disorder is a "condition that disturbs normal functioning" while a disease is "a condition of abnormal functioning." They're quite different, I think.
		The disease is usually mild, but it does have the ability to cause some serious problems: it is associated with spontaneous abortion in pregnant women, and with aplastic crisis in persons with chronic hemolytic anemia.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/4/animal-diseases.html (1195 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Development of Wind Energy ...
		Plum Island is owned by the Federal government and has an area of 840 acres (1.3 square miles).
		The principal mission of PIADC is to conduct research on the prevention, control, and eradication of foreign animal diseases and to develop and maintain diagnostic capability for foreign animal diseases in order to protect this country's animal industries and exports against catastrophic economic losses caused by foreign animal disease agents introduced into the United States.
		Electrical energy use on Plum Island varies seasonally, with a winter (February 1994) baseload of 1.1 megawatts (MW) and peak load of 1.4 MW and a summer (July 1993) baseload of 1.4 MW and peak load of 2.3 MW.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/1997/February/Day-14/i3538.htm (1577 words)

	Eyeballing the Plum Island Animal Disease Center
		Plum Island is specifically engaged in the study of zoonotic diseases.
		It seems that the water pressure on the island fell precipitously, disabling decontamination facilities and the necropsy rooms used to examine dead animals.
		Press requests to visit the island were denied by both the FBI and the USDA, but one union official claimed to have received a frantic call from one of the replacement workers.
	eyeball-series.org /plum-eyeball.htm (1237 words)

	Veterinarian selected to lead Plum Island Animal Disease Center - March 1, 2004
		Prior to beginning her official duties at Plum Island in January, Dr. Lautner was the vice president of science and technology for the National Pork Board.
		"Plum Island is a national resource because it is the only place in the United States where we do research to prevent certain types of foreign animal diseases, like foot-and-mouth disease.
		In the past, relationships between the research center and the surrounding community have been strained by labor disputes and concerns about the safety of living near the center.
	www.avma.org /onlnews/javma/mar04/040301b.asp (543 words)

	Plum Island Animal Disease Center : Home
		We work to protect farm animals, farmers and ranchers, the nation's farm economy and export markets...
		Plum Island is located off the northeastern tip of New York's Long Island.
		Land, buildings and other facilities of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center were transferred to the
	www.ars.usda.gov /naa/piadc (137 words)

	CNN.com - Animal disease center's security criticized - Oct. 18, 2003
		The nation's only diagnostic facility for dangerous animal diseases lacks adequate security and a satisfactory response plan for terrorism or other catastrophes, according to a federal study.
		Plum Island scientists study contagious animal diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease and swine flu.
		It is the only facility in the country that has vaccines for those diseases, making it a target for a terrorist attack on the agricultural economy, the report said.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/Northeast/10/18/facility.security.ap/index.html (406 words)

	TheHamptons.com: Group for the South Fork: Newsletter
		In a September 2003 report titled "Combating Bioterrorism: Actions Needed to Improve Security at Plum Island Animal Disease Center," the United States Government Accounting Office (GAO) identified significant ongoing environmental and security lapses that could be exploited by terrorists for the purpose of destabilizing the economy or harming human health and the environment.
		Less dramatic, but no less significant is the fact that other animal pathogens maintained at the facility could wreak economic havoc if their security and containment was compromised by terrorists or inadvertent release in the region or in other parts of the country.
		Lying at the gateway to the Peconic Bay Estuary, Plum Island is nearly adjacent to one of Long Island's busiest ferry terminals, most popular state parks, a commercial fishing dock and some of busiest fishing and pleasure boating waters in the region.
	thehamptons.com /group/newsletter/spring04/plum_island.html (1216 words)

	Plum Island Animal And Disease Center
		These are the types of diseases that they wish to study when they upgrade Plum Island to a level 4.
		"During Hurricane Bob, Plum Island's power was out for eighteen hours and that their backup generator was down for three months prior." That means that their diseases were defrosting during for those 18 hours and that their negative air pressure, which keeps the diseases in, was not functioning and were essentially airborne.
		There was also an outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease in 1978 where the entire island had to be evacuated and all of the animals were destroyed.
	www.rense.com /general4/plm.htm (2860 words)

	PLUM ISLAND NEWS
		The central issue here is whether Plum Island is the appropriate location to handle some of the most dangerous germs known to man." But David E. Kapell, the mayor of Greenport, said a tour of the laboratory he and other officials took on Monday had reassured him.
		Still, this tiny, high-security island, only a mile and a half off Long Island's prosperous North Fork, is the site of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, where scientists study some of the world's most infectious animal viruses.
		Now that the Agriculture Department wants to upgrade the laboratory, allowing scientists to also study animal diseases that endanger humans, officials are going out of their way to ease public concern, addressing local residents and taking elected officials and reporters on tours.
	www.newsmakingnews.com /plumislandnews.htm (1578 words)

	Plum Island Animal Disease Center-Research and diagnosis to protect United States animal industries and exports against ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Plum Island Animal Disease Center-Research and diagnosis to protect United States animal industries and exports against catastrophic economic losses caused by foreign animal disease (FAD) agents
		FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE RESEARCH The Foot and Mouth Disease Unit's research mission is to develop strategies for the prevention and control of potential foot-and- mouth disease outbreaks in North America.
		Fundamental research on viral replication, viral particle assembly and release, virus/cell receptor interaction, the infectious process, the 3-dimensional structure of viral capsid epitopes, and the basic host cellular immune response to various stages of infection are required to develop practical methods for vaccination, diagnosis and non- immunity based control strategies.
	www.scitechresources.gov /Results/show_result.php?rec=1114 (421 words)

	Plum Island Animal Disease Center : Home
		USDA activities at Plum Island are carried out by scientists and veterinarians with the department's
		We're proud of our role as America's first line of defense against foreign animal diseases.
		Not once in our nearly 50 years of operation has an animal pathogen escaped from the island.
	www.ars.usda.gov /main/site_main.htm?modecode=19-40-00-00 (137 words)

	Plum Island Animal Disease Center: DHS and USDA Are Successfully Coordinating Current Work, but Long-Term Plans Are ...
		Plum Island Animal Disease Center: DHS and USDA Are Successfully Coordinating Current Work, but Long-Term Plans Are Being Assessed.
		The livestock industry, which contributes over $100 billion annually to the national economy, is vulnerable to foreign animal diseases that, if introduced in the United States, could cause severe economic losses.
		DHS and USDA's coordination at Plum Island Animal Disease Center has been largely successful because of the agencies' early efforts to work together to bring structure to their interactions at the island.
	www.allbusiness.com /government/862234-1.html (845 words)

	Combating Bioterrorism: Actions Needed to Improve Security at Plum Island Animal Disease Center. GAO-03-847, September ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Scientists at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center are responsible for protecting the nation against animal diseases that could be accidentally or deliberately introduced into the country.
		Security at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center has improved, but fundamental concerns leave the facility vulnerable to security breaches.
		Despite a decline in performance from the previous rating period, USDA rated the contractor’s performance as superior for the rating period during which the strike occurred.
	www.iwar.org.uk /news-archive/gao/bioterrorism/plum-island.htm (466 words)

	The Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) in New York houses Agriucltural Research Service (ARS) research related ...
		Under the Department of Homeland Security Act of 2002, a number of functions performed by USDA will be transferred to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
		PIADC houses Agricultural Research Service research related to Foot and Mouth Disease, African Swine Fever and other exotic animal diseases.
		In addition to these program areas, funding is also being transferred from various Departmental staff offices to support DHS related activities.
	www.usda.gov /agency/obpa/Budget-Summary/2004/17.DHSTransfers.htm (314 words)

	US CODE: Title 6,190. Transfer of Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Department of Agriculture
		In accordance with subchapter XII of this chapter, the Secretary of Agriculture shall transfer to the Secretary of Homeland Security the Plum Island Animal Disease Center of the Department of Agriculture, including the assets and liabilities of the Center.
		At least 180 days before any change in the biosafety level at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, the President shall notify Congress of the change and describe the reasons for the change.
		No change described in paragraph (1) may be made earlier than 180 days after the completion of the transition period (as defined in section 541 of this title).
	www.law.cornell.edu /uscode/uscode06/usc_sec_06_00000190----000-.html (180 words)

	Research Participation Program at Plum Island Animal Disease Center
		Contact Us Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) is a unique research facility conducting research on foreign animal diseases.
		The PIADC Research Participation Program aims to provide a variety of educational and research opportunities including graduate and postdoctoral fellowships that will result in the development of new knowledge and technology in the control and eradication of foreign animal diseases.
		The PIADC Research Participation Program is administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE).
	www.orau.gov /piadc (111 words)

	[CTRL] Plum Island
		Cryptome comments Newsday article on anti-terrorism security for Plum Island Scientific American on Plum Island Patricia Doyle on Plum Island
		The Connecticut victim of anthrax lived across Long Island Sound about 10 miles northwest of Plum Island Animal Disease Center, which is located off the coast of Long Island, and performs highly specialized research on animal diseases.
		s a BSL-3 facility, PIADC already has in place state-of-the-art biosafety practices and procedures to prevent a disease organism from escaping into the environment, including stringent and rigorously observed safety measures within the laboratories themselves.
	www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg81100.html (3874 words)

	Tom Harkin: HARKIN QUESTIONS WHITE HOUSE PLAN FOR PLUM ISLAND ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER
		DHS has proposed to transfer funding and positions for 22 USDA researchers stationed at Plum Island.
		Those researchers perform critical research on the identification, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of foreign animal diseases--many of which are potential bioterror agents.
		Currently, the Department of Homeland Security has no research program at Plum Island, which it took control over as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, but hopes to build one through taking funding and personnel positions from USDA.
	harkin.senate.gov /news.cfm?id=224526 (320 words)

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