Is this going to be the new “normal”?
I’ve been thinking about a story I saw a few months ago. Scientists researching the melting ice caps and thawing permafrost have discovered some seriously deadly stuff coming back to life.
In a story “Welp, Scientists Found 28 New Virus Groups in a Melting Glacier” in Popular Mechanics in January, an article stated that scientists have unearthed 33 viruses, 28 previously undiscovered, which were trapped in glacial ice from 15,000 years ago.
In thawing permafrost in Alaska, “In recent years, researchers have pulled samples of smallpox, Spanish flu, bubonic plague, and even anthrax from thawing permafrost.”
Researchers are rushing to identify and still search for others but it’s all happening so fast. Think how many epidemics there have been in the past decade.
Very scary read. www.popularmechanics.com/...