Popular Culture
- Plum Island is a novel by Long Island author Nelson DeMille, who uses the island as one of his settings in the book.
- The Silence of the Lambs (1989) mentions "Plum Island" as a potential supervised vacation site for Hannibal Lecter as a reward for helping to catch Jame Gumb. He derisively refers to it as "Anthrax Island".
- Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory by Michael Carroll, Ph.D., examines the Plum Island Animal Disease Center.
- Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura Plum Island is the focus of one of the show's conspiracy theories in episode one of the second season.
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