high risk of life-threatening disease in animals and humans through the aerosol route and for which there is no known vaccine or therapy.” The Plum Island Animal Disease Center operates at BioSafety Level-3 — only doing research on animal diseases. There are five other possible sites for the new facility. But the Department of Homeland Security, whose project this is — and which also now manages Plum Island — is bullish on Plum Island for it because the other locations on the US mainland …