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Report: Plum Island lab least costly site for leak risk

A Department of Homeland Security analysis of potential locations for a laboratory to replace the Plum Island Animal Disease Center says the cost of escaping pathogens to the national economy would be greater at five mainland sites than a leak from a new facility on Plum Island.

The 1,005-page draft environmental impact statement for the $450-million National Bio-and Agro-Defense Facility...

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