INSIGHT

The facility has ventilation system that has holes in it, do to lack of maintainance, which has is allowing containments out into the surrounding environment.

Lyme disease, as well as many other diseases, have first appeared in the United States in close proximity to this island.

This island only has a four to five guards protecting it on a 9:00am to 5:00pm basis. This should come to no surprise that miscellaneous items go missing there all the time.

Terrorist who have been captured have also admitted that they have had their eye on the facility for some time.

For more detailed information on the Plum Island Lab 257 check out the below sites:

Michael Christopher Carroll author of the "Lab 257" book:
http://www.cbrinstitute.org/carroll/mcc.html
http://www.carlzimmer.com/articles/2004/articles_2004_Lab257.html

Plum Island:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/plum/
http://www.gene-watch.org/genewatch/articles/14-3plumisland.html

Quote about the book Lab 257:

'If you lost sleep after reading THE HOT ZONE, then Michael Christopher Carroll's LAB 257 will keep you awake all night. One of the best pieces of investigative reporting you'll read this year. LAB 257 is must-reading for the post-9/11 world.'
-Nelson DeMille