Everyone's talking about how bad anthrax is, and how it kills,
but nobody is talking much about how to kill it.
The reality is, anthrax has been around for many years, and it has been
a hazard to anyone who works with sheep or goat hair, so methods have
been found to kill it. (update) Recent events have brought this
to popular light, and additional methods have been researched and brought into production in the following
year, so I've updated this writeup to include them.
Here's a short list of several common methods:
As noted above, Gruinard Island was recently "decontaminated".
They sprayed a dilute solution of formaldehyde and salt water. I'm sure this
got what was on the surface, but archiologists claim to have found live 100 year
old anthrax spores burried, so who's to say the decontamination was
totally effective... I guess you don't want to go digging there.
1 U.S. Army field guide
2 Thanks, snopes!
3 http://extlab7.entnem.ufl.edu/PestAlert/anthrax.htm