// What about that Scottish island which was evacuated years ago after an outbreak of anthrax?//
The "outbreak" of Anthrax on Gruinard island 1942
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruinard_Island
broke out because erm the Porton scientists infected it
and n the end they deontaminated it by getting all the top soil down to x inches and tipping it into the sea. As a bio-weapon it was a complete disaster - everything died for the next fifty years
Now you wonder how they tested whether the island was still infected with anthrax, and that is by driving a flock of sheep onto it and then comping back and seeing if they were all dead
actually the workers were so scared about being infected themselves bu the process that they circled the island you know from fify yards or whatever, and then chuck the sheep over the side.
Apparently sheep when chucked into the sea and can see land, will instinctively swim for shore .......