Plum Island Animal Disease Center - Homeland Security
Aug 27, 2024 · The Plum Island Animal Disease Center operates Biosafety Level (BSL) 2, BSL-3 Enhanced, Animal Biosafety Level 3 (ABSL-3), and Biosafety Level 3 Agriculture (BSL-3Ag) laboratory and animal research facilities.
Plum Island Animal Disease Center - Wikipedia
Isolated on Plum Island off the eastern tip of Long Island, New York, the center has been tasked with protecting America's livestock from animal diseases since 1954. It is the only facility in the country authorized to work with live foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) samples, and specializes in the study of FMD and African swine fever . [ 3 ]
The Mystery, Myth and Reality of Plum Island | HowStuffWorks
For years, plenty of wild rumors and conspiracy theories have swirled around an 840-acre (340-hectare) speck of land a mile-and-a-half off New York's Long Island, home to a high-security federal research facility that Internet-fueled urban legends have made into the East Coast's equivalent of Area 51. Some have speculated that animal-human ...
Plum Island (New York) - Wikipedia
Plum Island is a 1997 novel by Long Island, New York author Nelson DeMille, who uses the Island as one of his settings in the book. The 2004 book Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory by Michael Carroll, examines the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC).
Diagnostic Testing at NVSL - Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Sep 25, 2024 · The National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) has laboratories in two locations: Ames, IA, and the Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (FADDL) at Plum Island, NY. Diagnostic test services range from a single laboratory test to comprehensive laboratory services covering many pathogens for a suspected disease outbreak.
NVSL Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory - Animal and …
Mar 20, 2024 · Currently, FADDL is located at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) in New York, the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Kansas, and the Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture. FADDL’s work at Plum Island is moving to NBAF.
Laboratory Information and Services - Animal and Plant Health ...
Mar 19, 2024 · APHIS laboratory services are provided by the National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) in Ames, IA, and Orient Point (Plum Island), NY. The NVSL provides a wide variety of information and services, centered around diagnosis of domestic and foreign animal diseases, support of disease control and eradication programs, reagents for ...
A mysterious lab is shutting down. It’s the end of an era for ...
Sep 16, 2023 · Plum Island Animal Disease Center will soon be decommissioned, to be replaced by a new, billion-dollar facility in the middle of the country.
Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) Fact Sheet
Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) Fact Sheet. Since 1954, the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) has served as the front line of the nation’s defense against diseases that could devastate markets for livestock, meat, milk, and other animal products. PIADC is the only laboratory in the nation that can conduct initial diagnostic ...
MISSION. Defend the nation against TADs that could result in food insecurity and impact U.S. export markets for livestock, meat, milk, and other animal products. DHS S&T conducts targeted advanced development for diagnostics and vaccines for high-consequence TADs.