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The Agriculture Department said in a statement it sent 28 pigs' tissue samples for testing to the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in the U.

The building will replace the aging Plum Island Animal Disease Center, the federal government s 54-year-old animal infectious disease research facility located off the northeast coast of Long Island, NY.

GAO also visited the Plum Island Animal Disease Center and other animal biocontainment laboratories in other countries.

Land, buildings and other facilities of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center were transferred to the Department of Homeland Security in June 2003.

They have blocked a Department of Homeland Security plan to upgrade its Plum Island Animal Disease Center off Long Island, N.

Interferon protects pigs from infection for least 24 hours, says Marvin Grubman of Plum Island Animal Disease Center in Greenport, New York.

Consolidating Power President Bush's proposed new agency would combine more than 20 security-related agencies, from the Customs Service, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Transportation Security Administration, the Secret Service, the Coast Guard, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, and Infrastructure Protection Center.

Plum Island Animal Disease Center had been researching foot and mouth disease since 1954.