French scientists have sparked fears of yet another pandemic after reviving a “zombie virus” that had been trapped under a frozen lake in Russia for a record 50,000 years.
“The situation would be much more disastrous in the case of plant, animal, or human diseases caused by the revival of an ancient unknown virus.”
This has had the alarming effect of “releasing organic matter frozen for up to a million years” — including potentially harmful pathogens.“Part of this organic matter also consists of revived cellular microbes as well as viruses that remained dormant since prehistorical times.” In order to study these awakening organisms, scientists have, perhaps paradoxically, revived some of these so-called “zombie viruses” from the Siberian permafrost.
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