How thawing permafrost could resurrect long-dormant diseases
Viruses and bacteria lurking in frozen Arctic soil could be freed by global warming.
June 16, 2020
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MOSCOW — In 2016, a 12-year-old boy died and more than 70 people were hospitalized in north-eastern Siberia after an outbreak of a bacteria that scientists had long believed was dormant.
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