Scientists Revived 'Zombie Viruses' Frozen For Eons in Permafrost

[shogun]

Scientists Revived Ancient 'Zombie Viruses' Frozen For Eons in Siberia

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.


https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists ... in-siberia

As though we don't have enough problems.

[maj. tom]

[redmanjp]

As though we don't have enough problems.

ent! was now going and post this. is one thing studying viruses that already in the animal kingdom that may threaten us (though they still shouldn't be messing around in the lab with it) but after 3 years of pandemic stress u go and dig up a virus that buried for thousands of years ?

[aaron17]

aye!.....

[Rovin]

ent they made tv shows\movies about this kinda stuff ...

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A man on a next thread tell me these things impossible.He probably feeling chuppid now

[De Dragon]

As though we don't have enough problems.

ent! was now going and post this. is one thing studying viruses that already in the animal kingdom that may threaten us (though they still shouldn't be messing around in the lab with it) but after 3 years of pandemic stress u go and dig up a virus that buried for thousands of years ?

Err, with the melting of the permafrost in many many areas and at an alarming rate, these viruses, bacteria, WILL be released to the environment sooner or later. Why not study them and develop vaccines or other mitigation measures?

[redmanjp]

can they really test a vaccine when there isnt any outbreak? how would u test efficacy? intentionally expose them to the virus? covid vaccines were tested by checking to see how vaxxed and unvaxxed (placebo) ppl responded to the virus when they were exposed in the community.

[88sins]

Yes, they can test a vaccine without an outbreak. They simply start wth testing animal models.