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Scientists Revived Ancient 'Zombie Viruses' Frozen For Eons in Siberia
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As the world warms up, vast tranches of permafrost are melting, releasing material that's been trapped in its icy grip for years. This includes a slew of microbes that have lain dormant for hundreds of millennia in some cases.
To study the emerging microbes, scientists have now revived a number of these "zombie viruses" from Siberian permafrost, including one thought to be nearly 50,000 years old – a record age for a frozen virus returning to a state capable of infecting other organisms.
The team behind the work, led by microbiologist Jean-Marie Alempic from the French National Centre for Scientific Research, says these reanimating viruses are potentially a significant threat to public health, and further study needs to be done to assess the danger that these infectious agents could pose as they awake from their icy slumber.
"One quarter of the Northern Hemisphere is underlain by permanently frozen ground, referred to as permafrost," write the researchers in their paper.
"Due to climate warming, irreversibly thawing permafrost is releasing organic matter frozen for up to a million years, most of which decompose into carbon dioxide and methane, further enhancing the greenhouse effect."
Full article: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists ... in-siberia
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Re: Scientists Revived Ancient 'Zombie Viruses' Frozen For Eons in Siberia
2 by papajim2jordan
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4 by Eris
Let me correct that topic:
Scientists Who Never Watched John Carpenter's The Thing Revived Ancient 'Zombie Viruses' Frozen For Eons in Siberia
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5 by highdesert
I don't doubt that they found some new viruses. IIRC scientists discovered the original 1918 influenza strain which caused the last pandemic, by digging up frozen corpses of people who died of the virus in far northern Norway.
Will this knowledge be used to protect humanity or used as a weaponized chemical weapon by countries or create a new Novichok, that dictators will use to annihilate their domestic enemies.
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