here's a link to google books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=aLyWOYcC3zAC&dq=lab+257&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=3ZxGSs2KCsHDtwenovi2Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4here's a snippet describing the book vis a vis Lyme Disease:
http://www.lymediseaseresource.com/Lab_257.html"Lab 257", written by Michael C. Carroll, has appeared at a time when hundreds of thousands of people are searching for answers about Lyme disease, (which may soon become one of the largest epidemics of all recorded time.) The book reads better than your favorite spy thriller, but finishes like a horror novel instead of a documentary.
Mr. Carroll convincingly traces the recent outbreak of West Nile disease to faulty security measures at a government testing lab on Plum Island just off the coast of Long Island. West Nile was a deadly germ that was kept in a very secure freezer along with hundreds of other diseases including Lyme. The story gets worse when a hurricane knocks the power out for a long enough time that the freezers contents melted and activated, from there we see the evidence of a worsening epidemic with no way to measure the true results of the outbreak - firstly because there is no adequate test to diagnose Lyme disease, and secondly because there are many who refuse to acknowledge the disaster.
here's an Indymedia article about Lyme as a Bioweapon:
US Government Admits Lyme Disease Is A BioweaponThe existence of the Lyme disease epidemic is officially covered up in the UK, its myriad presentations routinely misdiagnosed as everything from "M.E." to MS to hypochondria. This is the first admission by a US government body that the cause is an incapacitating biowar agentauthor: Lymerayja
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- The $10.6 million Margaret Batts Tobin Laboratory Building will provide a 22,000-square-foot facility to study such diseases as anthrax, tularemia, cholera, lyme disease, desert valley fever and other parasitic and fungal diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified these diseases as potential bioterrorism agents.".
http://www.uh.edu/ednews/2005/fwst/200511/20051114bioterrorism.html So, for the first time, a US government body admits that Lyme disease is a biological warfare agent. This is the reason that hundreds of thousands of men, women and children around the world have been left to rot with wrong diagnoses, or have had their Lyme disease acknowledged but been told that it is an "easily-treated" disease, given 3 weeks' antibiotics, then told to shove off when their symptoms carried on after that. In Britain the existence of the epidemic is denied completely, and virtually no effort made to warn or educate the public about the dangers of ticks, which carry the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi.
The Borrelia genus has been a subject of biowar experimentation at least as far back as WW2, when the infamous Japanese Unit 731, which tortured and experimented on live prisoners, studied it. The reality is, Lyme disease is for many a chronic, horrendous, incapacitating disease producing crippling fatigue, constant pain, loss of memory, possible paralysis, psychosis, blindness and even death.
It was an ideal biowar agent because it evades detection on routine tests, has an enormous range of different presentations, and can mimic everything from ADHD to multiple sclerosis to carpal tunnel syndrome to rheumatoid arthritis to chronic fatigue syndrome (M.E.) to lupus to schizophrenia. Enemy medical staff would never know what had hit them, nor even that ONE illness had hit their population, rather than an unexplained rise in dozens of known conditions.
Honest doctors and scientists who tried to treat or research Lyme disease according to ethical principles have been viciously persecuted by government-backed organisations in the US, Europe and elsewhere. Many specialists in the US were threatened with loss of their license or had anonymous, false allegations sent to the medical board, which tied them up in mountains of paperwork and legal fees...some were forced out of medicine or even driven to suicide.
Instead, medical disinfo agents, most of whom have a background in military/biowarfare units, such as Dr Allen Steere, Mark Klempner, Philip Baker, Edward McSweegan, David Dennis, Alan Barbour etc were enabled to assume top positions in Lyme research , CDC, NIH etc from where they issued false information , covering up the true seriousness and chronic nature of the disease, and comdemned untold numbers to a living
here's a story about Lab 257 from CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/04/02/lab.257/The mysterious lab off New York's shore'Lab 257' offers horror stories -- and disputeBy Adam Dunn
Special to CNN
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Oops.
That's the word that comes to mind when reading Michael Carroll's thoroughly nerve-wracking book, "Lab 257" (William Morrow), about the federal germ facility on Plum Island. The island sits off the eastern tip of Long Island's North Fork and it's home to some of the deadliest microbes festering on the planet. According to Carroll's book, the island -- and laboratory -- are also home to slipshod construction, poor safeguards, and lax security. "Lab 257" claims errors at the facility caused Lyme disease outbreaks and health problems for the local population -- claims disputed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which ran the facility until recently.
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Carroll noted the biological weapons being developed were not for use against humans, but rather against the human food supply, hence the classification as an animal disease lab. "Plum Island and Lab 257, as it was designed by the army, was not specifically geared towards germ warfare against people, but against food," Carroll stated. "It was designed to destroy any animal that could be deemed a food animal. ...
thinking at the time was that even better than germ warfare against people, germ warfare against food would also starve civilian populations as well, which would force them into submission." However, germs are pesky critters, and Carroll believes the facility dubbed "the safest lab in the world" was in fact a series of problems kept hidden.
Carroll: 'Safety completely went downhill'
Much of Carroll's research was done through interviews with nearby residents, as well as documents and reports. While the government was "cooperative at the outset," Carroll said (he was granted exclusive access to the island six times), he was later denied access to the facility by the Washington office of the USDA.
Nevertheless, he said he learned plenty, particularly about the safety of the labs.
"For decades, this was a place that put bread on the table and provided good federal benefits for ," he said. "So for many years, the word on the street ... it was sort of, 'loose lips sink ships' and 'let's keep this thing quiet.' But what happened was, after privatized the island and they stripped all these workers of their benefits ... one person was doing the job of two and three people ... safety completely went downhill. And people began to talk about it."
Carroll isn't the first to offer criticism. In 2002, after a power outage on the island, New York's WABC-TV did a story on whether containment procedures worked; several employees questioned the lab's safety. In 2003, the General Accounting Office listed security problems on the island, partially prompted by a whistleblower, Jim McCoy, who protested the management of a private concern....
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