"A 30,000 year-old virus is active again after it..." Topic

…thawed from Siberian permafrost.

"It sounds like the synopsis for an apocalyptic movie: scientists uncover a dormant 30,000 years old virus trapped frozen deep in the Siberian permafrost, after it thawed however the researchers were astonished to find the virus was still active and began to infect. The bad news: it's not a movie plot, this is for real and it was just recently announced to the public. The good news: the ancient virus doesn't affect humans, just amoebas as far as we can tell for now. The discovery still raises a sum of important questions: what if the virus was indeed capable of infecting humans? How long or what are the actual chances that a given virus can survive for such a long time? Will episodes such as these become common in light of permafrost melting in the Siberian regions and other similar parts of the world as a result of climate change?

The ancient virus was discovered buried deep in ice some 30 m (100 feet) and belongs to a class of giant viruses that were discovered 10 years ago, called Pithovirus sibericum. Like you might imagine, there are a number of peculiarities about it. For one, it's extremely large; so large that it can be observed via microscope measuring 1.5 micrometres in length. It's the biggest of its class found so far.

The other peculiar thing about it is that it's still active after 30,000 years. It hasn't infected anything since, but as soon as it was taken to a lab, French scientists found it munches on amoebas – single celled organisms…"

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Zombie Apoc has begun!!! (smile).

Amicalement
Armand

This sounds like a really boring game. I'll pass.

And so it begins…..

AndrewGPaul: My thought's exactly.

There are hundreds of millions of types of virii. Different types of viruses can infect only a limited range of hosts and many are species-specific. Some, such as smallpox virus for example, can infect only one species – in this case humans.

The odds that this particular one would even be able to infect humans is fairly remote. Don't flatter yourself by thinking that everything on the planet somehow relates to humans, most of it doesn't …

Think " mutation"? What it was then and could be now?
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