Zombie Viruses Awaken Due to Global Warming After Fifty Thousand Years of Dormancy
This week, Bloomberg explored the so-called “zombie viruses” — long-dormant microbes, which they describe as “another risk to public health brought by climate change,” as lands frozen for “thousands of years” have begun to thaw, particularly in the Arctic. They noted that the warming rate in the Arctic is “faster than anywhere else on Earth.”
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