Permafrost releases deadly viruses

The permafrost like a huge freezer, where hundreds of thousands of years of accumulated remains of animals. birds and even people.

As a result of melting permafrost can free threat the deadly virus, which for millions of years.

As the scientists explain, this permafrost like a huge freezer, where hundreds of thousands of years of accumulated remains of animals. birds and even people. They can contain a number of dangerous diseases from which modern man is not immune.

“Permafrost, retains microbes and viruses, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years. It’s dark, cold oxygen and UV rays. If you take the yogurt and place it in the permafrost, over 10 thousand years, I’m sure he will still be fit for food,” — said the scientist, exploring these microorganisms, Jean-Michel Clavery.

Clavery was part of a group of scientists that discovered that the virus that was in the permafrost 30 thousand years, can be revived.

Now known only one case of infection from bacteria, which spent many years in the permafrost. In August of 2016 in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous district of Russia anthrax got sick of 20 people, 12-year-old boy was killed. Also, the disease killed 2300 deer. This latest outbreak in the region occurred only in 1941.

As explained by scientists, the pathogen survived in the body of a deer, which died from the disease 75 years ago and for many years was in the permafrost layer. However, in 2016, this district had an abnormally warm summer, what remains could thaw, and anthrax “woke up”.

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