To: John Vosilla who wrote (159784 ) 7/4/2020 1:36:53 PM From: Haim R. Branisteanu 2 RecommendationsRecommended By
Read Replies (1) | Respond to John the big negative surprises will come due the thawing of the permafrost whereby various DNA viruses can jump into an host. My understanding is that the more simple RNA viruses cannot live for too long in permafrost. nexusmedianews.com This is potentially one small upside of a slow-moving disaster in the Arctic. Rising temperatures are melting permafrost, releasing climate.nasa.gov huge sums of methane, a potent heat-trapping gas. But as the earth thaws, it also could reveal the origins of many diseases, such as scarlet fever or the coronavirus, helping scientists understand past outbreaks and cope with new ones. asianage.com Peter Frankopan said melting of ice due to higher global temperatures could unleash biological agents trapped for thousands of years. newrepublic.com never before recorded , like the recently christened “pandoraviruses,” lurking in the permafrost. Pandoraviruses are a type of giant virus that appear to have been more common about 30,000 years ago. In 2014, researchers successfully revived two of these ancient viruses, which were found 100 feet underground in tundra along the coast. Luckily for us, the viruses can only infect single-celled amoebas, not people. But other unknown viruses and bacteria could potentially spread to humans after being preserved for hundreds or even thousands of years within Arctic ice. Without the immunity our ancestors may have had, both humans and the intermediary animals that can spread diseases could be extremely vulnerable to the revived microbes.
