You are now aware that USAMRIID managed to leak a bunch of anthrax into the water table of Frederick, Maryland.The problems date back to May 2018, when storms flooded and ruined a decades-old steam sterilization plant that the institute had been using to treat wastewater from its labs, Ms. Vander Linden said. The damage halted research for months, until the institute developed a new decontamination system using chemicals.
And these are the same dumb fucks who tell you every time they build another BSL-4 lab that the risk of a leak is negligible. There's a BSL-4 lab in downtown fucking Boston that I'm sure the citizens of that city are happy they don't know exists. I'm all for scientific exploration, but we need an ethical guide or else what't the point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruinard_Island Wanna get rid of anthrax? You literally need to blowtorch the top six inches of topsoil and then soak it with 280 metric tons of formaldehyde.Artificial contamination of Gruinard Island off the northwest coast of Scotland occurred in 1942–1943 as a result of tests of a biological warfare bomb containing live anthrax spores. Even by 1979 spores could still be detected in a 3-hectare area of the island. In the 1980s the area was decontaminated by burning the vegetation and spraying with 5% formaldehyde in seawater. By 1987, the ground was declared anthrax-free and, after reseeding, sheep were able to graze safely.