Scientists have found new 'zombie viruses', should we be worried?

Zombie viruses are emerging from tens of thousands of years old permafrost.A zombie virus refers to a virus trapped in permafrost which is ground that is frozen for at least two years straight.

"It is thus likely that ancient permafrost will release these unknown viruses upon thawing," the research paper said."How long these viruses could remain infectious 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.

"This wrongly suggests that such occurrences are rare and that 'zombie viruses' are not a public health threat."Are zombie viruses dangerous?Barr said it is "surprising" that scientists were able to recover viruses from almost 50,000 years ago but it is well known that viruses can be stored frozen for long periods of time.

"Viruses have emerged from 50,000 years ago but these are viruses infect amoeba. It's likely those amoeba lived in those soil samples 50,000 years ago and those viruses were frozen there," he said.Assistant Professor Jeremy Barr said we shouldn't be concerned about these zombie viruses.

What global warming I’m in central NSW and freezing 4 days into summer..

no not at all from shaneborg9

You might want to focus on the real one with code reds and chronic illness cases freely mutating about

LOL, they are paving the way for more pandemics and more vaccines. I'm loving it, please go on.

Well, we already discovered it. It is called the modern world. How few there are today, that don't live a zombie like existence.

'scientists'

livingdead all of us soon.

any level 4 wuhan biology labs buried in the permafrost?

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