a vast store of ancient viruses, according to a team of European researchers, who say they have found 13 previously unknown pathogens that had been trapped in the previously frozen ground of Russia’s vast Siberian region.found one virus that they estimated had been stranded under a lake more than 48,500 years ago, they said, highlightingThe same team of French, Russian and German researchers previously isolated ancient viruses from the permafrost and published their findings in 2015.
they published last month on the BioRxiv website, a portal where many scientists circulate their research before it is accepted in a scientific journal.“Every time we look, we will find a virus,” said Jean-Michel Claverie, a co-author of the study and an emeritus professor of virology at Aix-Marseille Université in France, in a phone interview. “It’s a done deal. We know that every time we’re going to look for viruses, infectious viruses in permafrost, we are going to find some.
The risks from viruses pent up in the Arctic are worth monitoring, several scientists said. Smallpox, for example, has a genetic structure that can hold up under long-term freezing, and if people stumble upon the defrosted corpses of smallpox victims, there is a chance they could be infected anew. Other categories of virus — such as the coronaviruses that cause covid-19 — are more fragile and less likely to survive the deep freeze.
Harriet_323 BS
Fear sells!
Cool!
Fake news
Global warming has been going on since the beginning of time. The ice melting is because of the 92 volcanoes under and around Antarctica. Speak the TRUTH, and you'll be more CREDIBLE!
Wa Po is somewhere between satire and a rag
ROFLMAO stop it your lies are killing people
Winter is coming!!!!!! White walkers 😂
I am not worried. Fauci and legacy media will give us plenty of contradictory advice, when it happens.
You guys are really digging deep to find more climate bullshit
Just wear a mask and you’ll be safe. Maybe 2.. preferably cloth.
so its the virus' are coming back from the dead. its not an actual zombie virus. bit disappointed if am honest. woulda been a laugh.
stay scared lemmings.
20 million followers... dozens of likes.. seems legit.
NATO
😂😂😂😂
Fear mongers
Now you’re losing credibility as a viable news company… how ridiculous!
It’s conservatives fault.
What a 'bag o lies' based propaganda....
No they're not the government is creating them how stupid do you think we are
Don’t worry, I’m not panicking. 🤡
scrimshankpotus Yay.
suuuurrr
More fear mongering from the left. It doesn’t stop.
THE WASHINGTON COMPOST Anything to say about FBI interference in Twitter and the election? I didn’t think so
I wonder if there’s one hidden that will give us gills 🤓
Well there's been proof for ages in Biden n Pelosi for a cpl
Ruh roh!
UROCKlive1 Don’t look up!
Really? Stupid headline meant to clickbait. Irresponsible.
I've seen a lot of dumb scare stories about climate change but this is perhaps the silliest. 'Thawed viruses will destroy the planet!'
oh...
Fuck around and find out 🤪
The comments in here are the same people who don't believe in Covid-19. I guess these people still dont care til it hits them. Zombie Russian virus will doom the unbelievers and the Conspiracy theorists will keep making up and lying to them. Washington post keep informing us.
Psst: Everyone worried about this news will be dead in about 100 years anyway. Sorry if I burst any bubbles.
Too good to be true. Someone post the catch in the replies.
What is the best zombie weapon?
As if you could make the 'climate crises' any more ridiculous, desperate to push the fear porn
UROCKlive1
UROCKlive1 The zombie apocalypse is real? Zombie Viruses? You’re just making stuff up now
Still ignoring the real story about the Democrats colluding with Twitter, Facebook and the media I see. Your readers should check out all the evidence released by Elon Musk. It's quite compelling and actual news, unlike the usual propaganda they get here. wapodemocratpropaganda
If you don’t like climate change, stop cutting trees, and start planting trees 🌲 🌳
So, buy guns & ammo to prep for the zombie apocalypse Thanks WaPo!
Panic Nuke the Arctic!
The X Files?
Good story..🐸
Your essential source for fear porn since the 2013 Bezos/CIA/ occupation of your brain.
Stock your homes with guns and all kinda ammunition. Wear iron body armour🤣🤣🤣
George RR Martin praticamente acertou os tempos atuais com a sua saga as Crônicas de Gelo e Fogo😅
I love this so much! Please be real.
Oh look … another pandemic
We aren’t afraid anymore
Seriously, you make me laugh!
to kill zombies you got to shoot them in the head body shots doesn’t work
Is this a parody account?
Okay
That's all we need, *another* zombie virus.
It was only a matter of time before WaPo found the 'missing link' between the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow', the movie 'World War Z' and a plea for everyone to engage in massive psychosis so we all wrap ourselves in bubble-wrap and sit on our couches in a lockdown until we die.
WaPo has drifted into self parody again
Oh god more Wuhan viruses
We won’t
Thanks
Well, we’re all pretty screwed anyway. At this point they should encourage us to just burn all our plastic waste in the backyard and dump the ashes in a pond with baby ducklings while dropping a deuce on the sidewalk.
😅😅😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣🤣🖕
The zombie apocalypse is a upon us ☺️
The click bait is real
Let me guess, there is Pfizer vaccine coming? 😜 P. S. Not reading the piece, sorry.
So this is the bullshit they are going to feed us over the next “pandemic”?
We’re all going to die
🤡🤡🤡