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Sounds Like Sci-Fi Horror, but It’s Real: Giant Viruses May Be Unleashed by Arctic Thaw
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 9:50
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It’s a scenario straight out of The X-Files: A prehistoric pathogen, isolated for millennia in Arctic ice, comes to light in the modern world.
The catch is that it’s not science fiction—and thanks to the great Arctic thaw, the discovery suggests an emerging public health worry unless nations sharply cut fossil fuel use in the next few decades.
French scientists announced this week that working in the lab, they have found a “giant virus” in a 30,000-year-old sample of permafrost from Siberia …. http://www.alternet.org
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/09/sounds-like-sci-fi-horror-but-its-real.html
