Image of Pithovirus sibericum isolated from a 30,000-year-old permafrost borehole in 2014. (Photo: Jean-Michel Claverie) Scientists are warning of so-called “zombie viruses”, also known as Methuselah microbes, which are frozen in the Arctic permafrost....
Today’s creatures would hardly be protected from viruses that spread diseases and epidemics more than 30,000 years ago and are now hidden in the permafrost. Russia has proposed a project to combat viruses hidden under permafrost. This was reported by Nikolai...
