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- 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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