IF the federal government said it wanted to study chemical warfare agents - such as anthrax, an invisible killer that can pack more than 100 million lethal doses in a single gram - a mile and a half from your home, you'd be concerned, right?

Well, that's a possibility residents, farmers and fisherman along the North Fork of Long Island are facing.

The Clinton administration is considering beefing up security at the 45-year-old Animal Disease Center on Plum Island - an 840-acre, lamb-chop-shaped piece of land a little more than a mile off the tip of the North Fork - so scientists can study anthrax and other potentially devastating diseases, such as screw worm and mad-cow disease.

Though, for this story, The Post wasn't allowed on Plum Island, where several labs house scientists currently studying animal killers such as foot-and-mouth disease, we spent the day out on the bucolic North Fork.

Full Story: http://www.nypost.com/living/16452.htm

Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
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