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To bring everyone up to speed here, the British government created several highly virulent strains of anthrax from 1942 to 1945, intended to be used as a bio-weapon to retaliate against Germany in the case of chemical warfare. Many people on this site and others agree that had the British government given the plan to utilize anthrax (called Operation Vegetarian) the green light, the European continent would be devastated for decades in a best case scenario and would remain uninhabitable for centuries at worst, with a death toll equivalent or above OTL's World War Two.
So with the extreme virulence of the anthrax spores in mind, how bad could things get in Britain if there was an accidental release of this stuff around 1942, the same year they began testing? Would the British government manage to keep thing contained or would that be it for the UK? How would this affect the rest of the world?