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Pithovirus sibericum, the largest virus discovered to date. For reference, Coronaviruses are around 100 nanometers long and Pithovirus is around 1500 nanometers long. Fortunately, it doesn’t infect humans.
These sound scary, but reviving these microbes required modern laboratories and scientists. Dr. Hoover says after a lifetime in the ice, he’s not afraid.
“I have no fear of microorganisms of the permafrost because for one thing they usually are adapted to living in cold environments, and as far as they’re concerned, I’m a ferocious volcano,” he said.
The heat wave had melted a layer of permafrost, exposing frozen reindeer that thawed, reviving the killer bacteria inside them. These ‘undead’ anthrax spores infected grazing reindeer nearby, then people. It would be the first documented case of ‘zombie’ microbes waking up on their own and attacking humans.
Pithovirus sibericum, the largest virus discovered to date. For reference, Coronaviruses are around 100 nanometers long and Pithovirus is around 1500 nanometers long. Fortunately, it doesn’t infect humans.
These sound scary, but reviving these microbes required modern laboratories and scientists. Dr. Hoover says after a lifetime in the ice, he’s not afraid.
“I have no fear of microorganisms of the permafrost because for one thing they usually are adapted to living in cold environments, and as far as they’re concerned, I’m a ferocious volcano,” he said.
The heat wave had melted a layer of permafrost, exposing frozen reindeer that thawed, reviving the killer bacteria inside them. These ‘undead’ anthrax spores infected grazing reindeer nearby, then people. It would be the first documented case of ‘zombie’ microbes waking up on their own and attacking humans.
Pithovirus sibericum, the largest virus discovered to date. For reference, Coronaviruses are around 100 nanometers long and Pithovirus is around 1500 nanometers long. Fortunately, it doesn’t infect humans.
These sound scary, but reviving these microbes required modern laboratories and scientists. Dr. Hoover says after a lifetime in the ice, he’s not afraid.
“I have no fear of microorganisms of the permafrost because for one thing they usually are adapted to living in cold environments, and as far as they’re concerned, I’m a ferocious volcano,” he said.
The heat wave had melted a layer of permafrost, exposing frozen reindeer that thawed, reviving the killer bacteria inside them. These ‘undead’ anthrax spores infected grazing reindeer nearby, then people. It would be the first documented case of ‘zombie’ microbes waking up on their own and attacking humans.
Pithovirus sibericum, the largest virus discovered to date. For reference, Coronaviruses are around 100 nanometers long and Pithovirus is around 1500 nanometers long. Fortunately, it doesn’t infect humans.
These sound scary, but reviving these microbes required modern laboratories and scientists. Dr. Hoover says after a lifetime in the ice, he’s not afraid.
“I have no fear of microorganisms of the permafrost because for one thing they usually are adapted to living in cold environments, and as far as they’re concerned, I’m a ferocious volcano,” he said.
The heat wave had melted a layer of permafrost, exposing frozen reindeer that thawed, reviving the killer bacteria inside them. These ‘undead’ anthrax spores infected grazing reindeer nearby, then people. It would be the first documented case of ‘zombie’ microbes waking up on their own and attacking humans.