Ancient Virus Discovered in Arctic Permafrost: Is it Curtains for Humanity?!

Ready for your daily dose of horror? No? Too bad!

An ancient virus (which has lied dormant for 30,000 years) has been revived from melting Siberian permafrost. The strain is only known to infect amoebae, but another viral strain of similar composition infected a French child last year.

Will humanity be overtaken by prehistoric viruses unleashed by global warming?!? Check out this video by Slate for more details.

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