According to a report in Euro News, scientists have revived the "Zombie' virus, which spent 48,500 years frozen in the Arctic, to study the risks associated with it.
Scientists for years have been warning about the dangers posed by viruses buried under ice caps in the Arctic and other places. Dubbed 'zombie viruses', they have the potential to unleash deadly strain of the disease that the present population is not equipped to handle. The threat has increased since rising temperatures due to global warming started melting the frozen ice. To better understand the risks associated with these 'Zombie viruses', a French scientist revived some of them from samples taken from Siberian permafrost, as per a report in Euro News. These viruses have spent thousands of years frozen in the ground.
It is to be noted that a fifth of the Northern Hemisphere is covered in permafrost, which has long supported the Arctic tundra and boreal forests of Alaska, Canada and Russia. Together with anc...