Wednesday 5 March 2014

CUE THE HORROR THEME MUSIC - The Giant Prehistoric Virus Returns

Late Feb 2014.

French scientist find a giant 30,000 year old virus in permafrost, defrost it.  After 30,000 year this formerly extinct virus is alive again and infectious...

CUE THE HORROR THEME MUSIC...

The French scientists point out that the virus only infects amoebas and not animals or humans, so a outbreak in the lab situation is unlikely.  But Professor Jean-Michel Claverie, from the National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) at the University of Aix-Marseille in France, warns "It is a recipe for disaster. If you start having industrial explorations, people will start to move around the deep permafrost layers. Through mining and drilling, those old layers will be penetrated and this is where the danger is coming from."

CUE THE HORROR THEME MUSIC...

So, it's possible for a small group in a remote drilling site, cut off from everyone else by ice and snow could stumble upon and thaw a 30,000 year old virus that can infect humans.  A virus that kills them one by one, possibly sending them mad and killing each other, clinging to life until the weather clears and they can get to civilisation and...

CUE THE HORROR THEME MUSIC...

~ DUG.

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