On Plum Island scientists study some of the most infectious pathogens known to man. On the west side of the island, sealed behind decades-old metal doors and frozen inside tamper-proof containers, are vials of rinderpest and foot-and-mouth disease virus, two of the most feared animal contagions of all time.
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 ru.
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