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Zombie Virus in Russia

December 3 , 2022 712 days 662 0
  • European researchers examined ancient samples collected from permafrost in the Siberia region of Russia.
  • They revived and characterized 13 new pathogens, what they termed “zombie viruses.”
  • They found that they remained infectious despite spending many millennia trapped in the frozen ground.
  • Among these 13, the oldest virus dubbed as Pandoravirus Yedoma, is known to be 48,500 years old.
  • This virus breaks the previous record held by a 30,000-year-old virus that was uncovered by the same team in 2013.

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