Posted on 11/29/2022 9:08:52 PM PST by bitt
For almost 50,000 years, viruses have been waiting, frozen in layers of permafrost that have thawed with the warming of Earth.
A recent study of a section of Siberian permafrost by scientists from the French National Centre for Scientific Research found 13 viruses that have survived 48,500 years, according to Canada’s Global News. That’s older than the previous oldest virus found, which was 30,000 years old.
One of the new finds has been dubbed a “zombie virus” by the New York Post.
“One quarter of the Northern hemisphere is underlain by permanently frozen ground, referred to as permafrost. Due to climate warming, irreversibly thawing permafrost is releasing organic matter frozen for up to a million years,” said an abstract of the study posted on BioRxiv, which publishes study pre-prints.
The abstract said the lack of discussion of viruses found in permafrost “wrongly suggests that such occurrences are rare and that ‘zombie viruses’ are not a public health threat.”
The study framed the need to study the viruses and bring them to life under strict laboratory conditions as necessary to address prevention should they become active and a public health threat through, for example, such activities as open-pit mining in areas of what once was permafrost.
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Well, it’s nothing a huge pile of money spent on research can’t fix, I suppose. At least we’ll be sure to release something that, currently, remains buried.
Another “oopsie” coming from the Wuhan Lab?
Interesting times we’re living in. Obviously not in a good way.
I’ve seen this movie,we need flame throwers,lots of them and uncontaminated blood for testing.🤔
A lot less time to drink it than it does to make it I’m guessing. Still, that’s talent.
Poor Fauci. What a missed opportunity.
We elected a zombie president and a zombie senator. Why wouldn’t it be time for a zombie virus?
Ewwwwwwww
I always look forward to the five or more boosters.
ROFL!!
Woohoo!!!
“The study noted the necessity of preparedness against a potential pandemic.”
There’s the funding request.
As long as it’s the viruses themselves that are zombies.
Not viruses that can turn PEOPLE into zombies.
If that’s the case, I’m glad I read The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks.
They mentioned climate change and mining. They are slipping. They should have mentioned drilling for oil and releasing the viruses.
The earth is only six thousand years old.
Interesting that even in this day of particularly uncanny leaps in science and technology, that many in all flavors of science can’t wrap their brains around the fact that the Earth is 6,000 years old. It’s either everything happened to whatever fits their fancy in millions and billions of years, or they get brainfry or spontaneously combust.
I hate 50,000 year old zombies.
Don’t let Fauci and company get a hold of it. They will perform gain of function on it to make it deadly.
I think “Lazarus Virus” would be a much better term.
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