Book Review of “Lab 257″ by Michael C. Carroll
Lab 257, written by Michael C. Carroll, has appeared at a time when hundreds of thousands of people are searching for answers about Lyme disease, (which may soon become one of the largest epidemics of all recorded time.)
The book reads better than your favorite spy thriller, but finishes like a horror novel instead of a documentary.
Mr. Carroll convincingly traces the recent outbreak of West Nile disease to faulty security measures at a government testing lab on Plum Island just off the coast of Long Island. West Nile was a deadly germ that was kept in a very secure freezer along with hundreds of other diseases including Lyme.
The story gets worse when a hurricane knocks the power out for a long enough time that the freezers contents melted and activated, from there we see the evidence of a worsening epidemic with no way to measure the true results of the outbreak - firstly because there is no adequate test to diagnose Lyme disease, and secondly because there are many who refuse to acknowledge the disaster.
Even the most severe critic can not find flaws in the hard evidence, meticulous interviews, and obvious conclusions that Mr. Carroll has made and collected over a seven year period. He even visited the government facility himself on three occasions and witnessed first hand the deplorable physical condition of Lab 257, the lab which contained hundreds of deadly viruses.
And yet, the growing controversy about the book is not surprising given the astonishing mismanagement of deadly viruses by our government - a government which I am normally the first in line to support.
Nobody wants to believe the horrifying facts revealed in this book, but it make sense when you look at the dates that Lyme disease began to spiral out of control, and the epicenters from which they spread.
A further shattering conclusion that was barely hinted at, is the curious rise of co-infections being diagnosed - all carried by the intensely frightening and seemingly in-destructible tick.
Most recently, Dr. Benjamin Luft and his team of researchers at Stony Brook University Medical Center have determined unequivocally that the virulent strain of Lyme bacteria that we are struggling with here in the US is a clone of the European strain.
Read more about the discovery here.
Hopefully the truth of this story will continue to spread, and perhaps…some day… it will lead to a cure.
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