Never-before-seen microbes locked in glacier ice could spark a wave of new pandemics if released

LiveScience ^ | 01 July 2022 | Harry Baker

[zeestephen]

Stunned scientists have uncovered more than 900 never-before-seen species of microbes living inside glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau. Analysis of the microbes' genomes revealed that some have the potential to spawn new pandemics, if rapid melting caused by climate change releases them from their icy prisons.

[mad_as_he$$]

On topic:

“Erebus pushed all my right buttons; an Antarctic, foreboding setting, unearthing a biologic disaster hidden for millennia and a race to save humanity from it...”

https://www.amazon.com/Erebus-Apocalyptic-Thriller-Steven-Bird/dp/1975895401

[RoosterRedux]

Heheh. Ya think?

[EvilCapitalist]

Isn’t “The Blob” supposed to be trapped in Antartic ice?

[zeestephen]

It is in Tibet.

My first instinct - the MSM is giving China a cover story for any new pandemics, and maybe even Covid.

[Gideon7]

The Thing

[Jan_Sobieski]

Scary! Very scary! Global warming causes US funded biolabs to create viruses that cause vaccines to kill everyone.

[EvilCapitalist]

I was wrong. I just checked, the Blob is in the Arctic.

[Yo-Yo]

Analysis of the microbes' genomes revealed that some have the potential to spawn new pandemics, if rapid melting caused by climate change releases them from their icy prisons.

Oh boy, another reason to fear "Globull Warming."

[Adder]

OR

Their release from the ice could provide new beneficial medicines! [insert breathless pant here...]

[Semper Vigilantis]

Either way - WE HAVE TO KNOW!

We have to get to them and see what they are capable of before our enemies do!

[COBOL2Java]

Fauci's all excited! No doubt the ChiComms will let him torture more baby beagles with the microbes

[Baldwin77]

Not until 2024.

(I’m soooooo scared !)

[Baldwin77]

Big Phama better start working on a “vaccine” right now ! They will save the day !

[mad_as_he$$]

Yes, it is. Along with a secret base with a Star Gate and a weapon the saves the Earth. ;-)

[mad_as_he$$]

OOPs! You are correct.

[GaltAdonis]

OUR PLANS ARE ALMOST COMPLETE
Soon the ice cave will be opened -
AND WE WILL RELEASE OUR PLAGUE OF DEMONIC POLITICIANS AND MUTANT BUREAUCRATS -

UPON THE WHOLE WORLD!!!

MWA HA HA HA HA!!!!!

/SARC ?

[Recovering_Democrat]

Ah, climate change will make the Rona worse. Ok, media.

[HYPOCRACY]

They used to want to make giant dinosaurs that would destroy us. Now they want microbes.

Such small thinkers.

[lgjhn23]

Their fear mongering in the name of climate change comes straight out of where?
Hollywood.
These morons are absolutely pathetic.