For decades, Gruinard Island off the north west coast of Scotland was too dangerous to allow public access. It was known as "Anthrax Island" after it was contaminated during World War Two by ...

Anthrax apparently spread to the mainland in 1943 from a sheep carcass that floated across from the island, killing seven cows, two horses, three cats and more than 20 sheep, government records ...

‘Anthrax Island’ at the heart of biological warfare op. A remote but accessible island located under a mile from the mainland, Gruinard was the site of then-top-secret military experiments ...

Anthrax apparently spread to the mainland in 1943 from a sheep carcass that floated across from the island, killing seven cows, two horses, three cats and more than 20 sheep, government records ...

The anthrax was hastily buried on the island in 1988 after Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev decided that the discovery of a stockpile of anthrax in eastern Siberia would be an embarrassment if ...

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The island was finally declared anthrax free on April 24, 1990. The uninhabited island went up in flames in 2022 after a wildfire tore through it. Approximately 200 hectares were burnt but no ...

Legacy of fear on blighted anthrax island. A germ warfare experiment left Gruinard closed and deserted for 50 years. David Harrison visits - and can't wait to leave.

While anthrax was never ultimately deployed in warfare, the experiment left the island irreversibly contaminated. By 1945, the government deemed Gruinard “too hazardous” for human or animal ...

For decades, Gruinard Island off the north west coast of Scotland was too dangerous to allow public access. It was known as "Anthrax Island" after it was contaminated during World War Two by ...