A group of international scientists that revived 13 'zombie viruses' is warning that the thawing of ancient permafrost could lead to a new public health threat.
'Outnumbered' panelists criticize the hypocrisy of world leaders who flew private jets to the COP27 climate summit in Egypt.thawing of permafrost due to climate changeIn an article posted to the preprint repository bioRxiv – which has yet to be peer-reviewed – the French, Russian and German researchers said they had revived and uncovered 13 new"zombie viruses" isolated from seven different ancient Siberian permafrost samples.
, antiviral or medical response, the paper said it is legitimate to ponder the risk of ancient viral particles remaining infectious and getting back into circulation by the thawing of ancient permafrost layers. Furthermore, the authors wrote that the biological hazard associated with reviving prehistorical amoeba-infecting viruses is"totally negligible" compared to the search for"paleoviruses" directly from permafrost-preserved remains of mammoths, woolly rhinoceros or prehistoric horses.
The body of a frozen baby mammoth which was buried in permafrost of the Yamal Peninsula, Siberia for 40,000 years is unveiled in Chai Wan.
Valery Plotnikov, a palaeontologist at the Yakutia Academy of Sciences, studies a rare prehistoric cave lion cub on November 28, 2018.once exposed to outdoor conditions , and how likely they will be to encounter and infect a suitable host in the interval, is yet impossible to estimate.
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