PLUM ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Plum Island Animal Disease Center off eastern Long Island may have been responsible for outbreaks of Lyme disease and West Nile virus and could be vulnerable to terrorist ...
Can Plum Island, an 843-acre island a mile and a half off the eastern end of Long Island—originally the site in the early 1950s of a U.S. Army laboratory with a mission to develop biological warfare ...
About a mile off the tip of Long Island's North Fork, past a patch of rough sea and a long, sharp reef, there's a wild, sequestered place known as Plum Island. Some may have heard of it: It's been ...