http://buffalonews.com/2018/01/31/don-paul-are-zombie-pathogens-a-threat-as-permafrost-melts/by Don Paul
January 31, 2018
The first time I read of zombie viruses being released from melting permafrost in our warming environment, my antennae wiggled. I suspected this might be more social media junk science that flows so endlessly on the web. But I did see a couple of credible articles suggesting this was hypothetically possible (one in The Atlantic comes to mind), so I lowered my skepticism shield long enough to investigate further.
It’s an issue worth exploring. There is so much frozen plant and animal life going far back in time that a reservoir of pathogens possibly being released into our environment with the ongoing thawing might pose a significant threat to human and animal health.
“Might†is one way of looking at this issue but, for most pathogens, “not likely†would be a better narrowing of probabilities.
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