Al-Qaeda Targets Lethal Disease Research Facility on NY Island
The most recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease here in the UK was traced back to a government research establishment in the south-east of England.
Keep your animal research off the mainland. You really don’t want an outbreak in the US. The carnage of culling is bad enough, but the accompanying restrictions on livestock movement have a crippling effect on the dairy, beef, and lamb trade. Culling causes loss of valuable bloodlines. And farmers children even have to be sent off-farm so they can go to school without compromising bio-security.
It’s awful.
And it is even worse if you consider animal pathogens with the potential to mutate and infect humans.
Keep it offshore, keep the public out, and apply strict screening to the staff who are allowed access to the island.
