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Tango0127 May 2023 10:22 p.m. PST

… Siberian Permafrost — And Warn That Climate Change Could Rouse More


"For millennia, dangerous viruses have lurked beneath the Siberian permafrost. Now, a group of scientists has revived more than a dozen of these viruses from the ice to prove that it's possible — and to sound the alarm that more prehistoric viruses might emerge as the Earth warms.


According to a study conducted by French, Russian, and German scientists and published in bioRxiv — but not yet peer-reviewed — the researchers isolated 13 viruses from seven ancient Siberian permafrost samples. Science Alert explains that these samples were taken from beneath a lake, from the wool of a mammoth, and even from the intestines of a Siberian wolf…"

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ScottWashburn Sponsoring Member of TMP08 Jun 2023 4:48 a.m. PST

What could possibly go wrong?

Tango0112 Jun 2023 3:32 p.m. PST

Ha!….

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