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Posted: 07-03-2002 14:40 Post subject: 1950s anthrax lab

National Post (Toronto) March 7

"The Canadian military's crack team of decontamination experts has set up shop at Canadian Forces Base Kingston, where they are excavating the dumpsite of a top-secret, Cold War era bio-weaponry lab.

Before it moved to Ottawa in 1964, standard practice at the lab had been to dump decontaminated waste products into a 1.8-metre-deep hole behind the laboratory building, which is now the administrative headquarters of the base.

Yesterday, workers in gas masks and green containment suits sifted through dirt excavated from what is now a parking lot, picking out thousands of broken vials, dye-stained beakers, blood-soaked gauze and the carcass of a rabbit that likely died a horrid death from anthrax..."
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?f=/stories/20020306/251943.html

With the lax toxic disposal standards of the time ("The rabbit's died of anthrax. I'll bury it out back.") it's disturbing to think of how many other places like this there might be, undocumented and forgotten.