Nearly 50,000-Year-Old ‘Zombie Virus’ with Potential to Infect Humans Discovered Frozen in Ice

LIBERTYLOFT ^ | 11/29/2022 | jack davis

[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.

[bitt]

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[Newbomb Turk]

Frozen ice. Is there any other kind ?

[Bob434]

too late- democrats have already contracted it

[fidelis]

“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.

In the old days they just blamed things like this on radiation and stuff. That's how we got Godzilla and those guys.

[PLMerite]

Frozen in ice is never a good sign:

[lightman]

It’s after midnight on the East Coast.

Do you know where your Faucis are?

[frank ballenger]

Movie the Thing (remake 1982) from the story Who Goes There? a 1938 science fiction horror novella by American author John W. Campbell, written under the pen name Don A. Stuart.

[frank ballenger]

All these years the Abominable Snowman has been trying to warn us.

[struggle]

“Quick, let’s make it way more deadly.”

[SunkenCiv]

Global warming hoax panic porn.

[SaveFerris]

Those darn Swedes!!!

(your turn)

[dsrtsage]

They need to gain of function it as quickly as possible

[SaveFerris]

(“Quick, let’s make it way more deadly.”)

If only that was just a joke

[cpdiii]

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.

That worked great in the Wuhan Lab. They took a virus that was in the bat population and modified it to be infectious in humans.

Oddly any viruses thawing out of the permafrost that humans can contract we have already contracted in the past and have much genetic immunity today. Otherwise we would all be dead today as most of Europe was permafrost 20,000 years ago and it thawed and we did not die.

I hate fear PORN.

[Pocketdoor]

.....irreversibly thawing....
The science is settled! Finally! Now can we get back to life, and start being productive again...

[PLMerite]

“...bring them to life under strict laboratory conditions as necessary to address prevention should they become active and a public health threat...

More like “should we screw up and let them escape...”

A scientific self-licking ice cream cone.

[frank ballenger]

Update: the Zombie Virus turns people into clones of Lori Lightfoot and Fetterman.

Fauci: Get the virus vax jab and wear a Zombie mask.

[BradyLS]

Coming to a lockdown near you...

[Libloather]

Zombie shots -