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Posted on 08/30/2024 7:05:24 AM PDT by dynachrome
Scientists have unearthed the remnants of more than 1,700 viruses from deep inside a glacier in western China. Most of these viruses are new to science.
With this discovery, the number of ancient viruses recovered from glaciers has grown fiftyfold.The viruses, gathered from a 1,000-foot ice core taken from the sprawling Guliya Glacier on the Tibetan Plateau, date back 41,000 years and span three major shifts from cold to warm.
Scientists say the viruses differed markedly between colder and warmer eras, noting that a distinct community of viruses formed during the most dramatic of these climatic shifts, at the end of the last ice age some 11,500 years ago. “This at least indicates the potential connection between viruses and climate change,” said ZhiPing Zhong of Ohio State University, lead author on the research.
"While researchers have warned that some dormant viruses now being liberated from melting glaciers could potentially infect humans, the viruses unearthed from the Guliya glacier pose no risk, study authors said"
(Excerpt) Read more at e360.yale.edu ...
Dr. Fauxci is ready for more gain of function testing
Leave them there and just back away.
Well, that is unsettling.
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We don’t need glaciers if they are going to harbor viruses.
Let’s melt them all now!!!
Don’t tell Fauci.
5.56mm
> The abstract of the article indicates that the viruses they are analyzing infect bacteria.
That makes perfect sense. At that time, humans were few and far between, whereas bacteria were and are everywhere. Viruses adapt and evolve to infect the things in their environment.
How do they know that? What if Denisovans were exposed to the viruses and that's why they extincted?
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