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"However, famines may not be the only product of Plum Island and some of the pathogens it has been experimenting on can cross over to humans.
Grossman said that a 2007 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) exposed some of the pathogens on Plum Island "could also cause illness and deaths in humans."
According to a 2005 report by the GAO, the Plum Island experimented with pathogens that can potentially cause fatal diseases in humans, including West Nile virus, Nipah virus, Rift Valley Fever.
Plum Island is also suspected to start the global epidemic of Lyme disease, a disease transmitted through tick bites, and can result in chronic suffering if untreated.
"John Loftus is an attorney, he was a specialist at pursuing Nazis for the Office of the Special Investigations of the U.S. Department of Justice, and he tells in his 1982 book about Nazi germ warfare scientists experimenting with poisoned ticks dropped from planes. He suggests in the book the hypothesis that the poisoned ticks were the source of Lyme disease," Grossman said, adding that ticks have long been regarded as a disease vector in biological warfare.
Grossman added Kris Newby, an "excellent science writer connected to Stanford University," wrote a book in 2019 featuring interviews with Willy Burgdorfer, who is credited with the discovery of the microbe causing Lyme disease, and the book exposed that Burgdorfer had earlier "developed bioweapons for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)."
In 2019, the U.S. Congress passed an amendment requiring the Inspector General of the DOD to investigate the "possible involvement of DOD biowarfare labs in the weaponization of Lyme disease in ticks and other insects."
The amendment was offered by Representative Chris Smith from New Jersey who said, "those interviews combined with access to Dr. Burgdorfer's lab files suggest that he and other bioweapons specialists stuffed ticks with pathogens to cause severe disability, disease-even death-to potential enemies. Americans have a right to know whether any of this is true."
Grossman recalled from his three past visits to Plum Island that the place was "scary."
"We need to come clean, the United States, I believe, on what is going on for all these years on Plum Island," said Grossman."
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