In May of 2008, the U.S. Congress Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee

on Energy and Commerce met to discuss the proliferation of biocontainment labs.

At the time, the Department of Homeland Security was proposing the shutdown of a facility

isolated on an island off the east coast of the United States and transfer of its operations

to the mainland.

This specific bio research facility had been at the center of an effort to combat the

pathogen known as foot and mouth disease, foot and mouth disease, a highly contagious disease

caused by a virus that can severely affect cattle and farm animals.

His virulence made it a major concern during the Cold War when the U.S. military had considered

using it to destroy Soviet farms and food stores.

During the meeting in 2008, the Subcommittee discussed a government exercise that had

been implemented to assess the preparedness of the U.S. in the case of a large-scale outbreak.

The exercise ended with the destruction of almost 50 million hit of livestock, food shortages,

riots and a 25-mile ditch filled with the carcasses of infected animals.

The facility that for 50 years has been at the heart of the research for this calamitous

disease may have other secrets locked away in its deepest levels.

This case file joined the theorists as they go for the body and re-equaint themselves

with the great governor of Minnesota on the shores of Plum Island.

Welcome to alien theorist theorizing case file to 13 Plum Island.

I'm Braden.

I'm Zo.

I'm Dan.

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