Comments on: Six-Legged Soldiers Part Three: Nerve Gases, Then and Now http://blog.oup.com/2009/02/six-legged-soldiers-part-three/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:14:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Deborah http://blog.oup.com/2009/02/six-legged-soldiers-part-three/comment-page-1/#comment-153693 Deborah Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:44:16 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=3030#comment-153693 I am just finishing this fascinating book, Six-Legged Soldiers. I was curious when he wrote about West Nile and the theories of how it spread in this country so rapidly that he failed to go into any detail about the Plum Island facility. From what I've read, the conditions at the laboratory at Plum Island deteriorated significantly so that many pathogens and vectors could have, and did, escape from there. This omission save one brief mention of the facility has me more curious than ever. I am just finishing this fascinating book, Six-Legged Soldiers.

I was curious when he wrote about West Nile and the theories of how it spread in this country so rapidly that he failed to go into any detail about the Plum Island facility. From what I’ve read, the conditions at the laboratory at Plum Island deteriorated significantly so that many pathogens and vectors could have, and did, escape from there. This omission save one brief mention of the facility has me more curious than ever.

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