Scientists have revived a "zombie" virus that spent 48,500 years frozen in permafrost

[Amo Husserl]

We locked down for a mismanaged pandemic that almost broke supply chains because...?

In 2014, he managed to revive a virus he and his team isolated from the permafrost, making it infectious for the first time in 30,000 years by inserting it into cultured cells. For safety, he’d chosen to study a virus that could only target single-celled amoebas, not animals or humans.

He repeated the feat in 2015, isolating a different virus type that also targeted amoebas. And in his latest research, published February 18 in the journal Viruses, Claverie and his team isolated several strains of ancient virus from multiple samples of permafrost taken from seven different places across Siberia and showed they could each infect cultured amoeba cells.

Last year, a team of scientists published research on samples of soil and lake sediment taken from Lake Hazen, a freshwater lake in Canada located within the Arctic circle. They sequenced the genetic material in the sediment to identify viral signatures and the genomes of potential hosts — plants and animals — in the area.

Using a computer model analysis, they suggested the risk of viruses spilling over to new hosts was higher at locations close to where large amounts of glacial meltwater flowed into the lake — a scenario that becomes more likely as the climate warms.

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

Are y’all telling me that not only is the water level going to increase but the ice melting will bring diseases that eradicate us?


Planet is trying to tell us to calm down!!

Earth right now is like a car going 100mph and snow is starting to fall. It has no winter tires and chains on. We are all in the back seat. The politicians are in the passenger seat, and billionaires like Elon musk are in the drivers seat. They've had at least 5 beers. The politicians have had a few too so they're not as faded. The billionaires tell the politicians "it's fine, we've got this." The politicians say "I'm not sure but you're driving so okay"

And those of us in the back with even a sliver of sense are shouting "slow the fukk down you idiots " the beers are money and influence.

 

[Fani Willis fan]

humanity doesnt learn does it???

If they can understand how a zombie virus works beforehand they can be better prepared in the event of an outbreak.

 

[Paradoxx]

humanity doesnt learn does it???

Can't wait to get my hands on Resident Evil: 4 Remake

 

[IIVI]

What if the zombie virus is actually in some of them right now and it's using the scientists/humans as a vehicle in order to unearth the real damaging viruses and spread

Similar to when the bacteria that live in our gut get hungry: they make us hungry in order to get ourselves something to eat so they can have the food.

 

[NatiboyB]

Smdh welp time for pole shift it was real yall

Didn’t someone come out with a finding that a number of diseases/bacteria are frozen in the glaciers and as they continue to melt more of these threats are exposed to the atmosphere?

It would be crazy if this is what earth must do to protect its self from us basically eliminate a majority of us in order to reset.

 

[NatiboyB]

Warmer temperatures in the Arctic are thawing the region’s permafrost — a frozen layer of soil beneath the ground — and potentially stirring viruses that, after lying dormant for tens of thousands of years, could endanger animal and human health

This is the REAL story. The scientists need to study these viruses so that they can at least come up with something to protect us when the shyt starts spreading for real. Room temperature IQ individuals will of course read that stupid clickbait headline and decide "wow them scientists fukking around with this shyt for no reason and it's gonna get us all killed" instead of "here's another reason why we need people in charge to take RADICAL action and write blank checks to stop and reverse climate change before we all die".

Excellent point you do have to identify it in order to protect against it. Maybe the earlier they can get to it the more likely they are to find a cure/vaccine maybe even find some more potential cures to other ailments. I’m sure it’s a heavy risk assessment/analysis they are doing.

 

[ORDER_66]

If they can understand how a zombie virus works beforehand they can be better prepared in the event of an outbreak.

You really trust these goofballs not to fukk up and try to weaponized this shyt???

 

[Diondon]

 

[NinoBrown]

Walking Dead virus coming to a town near you soon!!!