Posted on 03/10/2023 3:46:20 PM PST by devane617
A team of climate scientists from France, Russia and Germany has found that ancient viruses dormant for tens of thousands of years in permafrost can infect modern amoeba when they are revived. For their study, reported on the open-access site Viruses, the group collected several giant virus specimens from permafrost in Siberia and tested them to see if they could still infect modern creatures.
Prior research has shown that permafrost—frozen soil—is an excellent preservative. Many carcasses of frozen extinct animals have been extracted from permafrost in the Northern Hemisphere. Prior research has also shown that plant seeds lying dormant in permafrost can be coaxed to grow once revived. And there is evidence suggesting that viruses and bacteria trapped in permafrost could infect hosts if revived. In this new effort, the researchers tested this theory.
The effort by the research team followed up on prior work in 2014 that showed a 30,000-year-old virus could be revived—and that it could be infectious. The team followed up on that effort by reviving a different virus in 2015 and allowing it to infect an amoeba. In this new effort, the team collected several virus specimens from multiple permafrost sites across Siberia for lab testing.
For safety reasons, the research team collects only so-called giant viruses and only those that can infect amoeba, not humans or any other creature. In reviving the virus samples, the team found that they were still capable of infecting amoeba. They also found, via radiocarbon dating of the permafrost in which they were found, that the viruses had been in a dormant state for between 27,000 and 48,500 years.
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Great. I just put all my money in an amoeba farm.
It’s just amazing that none of these clowns have seen this movie.
Oh no we’re all gonna die! Again.
How is this a surprise to anyone?
These scientists should be locked in a room and have their virus’s turned loose on them.
Can you find one that infects the brain eating amoeba?
Because, I’d really like that one to go extinct.
I say quit digging up crap and infecting anything. This is stoopid.
“Great. I just put all my money in an amoeba farm”.
Maybe you can answer, “What is the plural form of amoeba?”
Amoebae?
I say quit digging up crap and infecting anything. This is stoopid.
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This is big pharoma eugenics transhumanism globalcide normalisation and justification for felinous fauci and friends .
I posted another article this morning about these irresponsible cranks digging this crap back up and doing gain of function ,.
I thought that was illegeal !
Serious chaff to cover big pharma butts from Nurehmberg 2.0 , reparations and death penalties for crimes against humanity.
Spit.
Is Dr Fauci on their Board of Directors?
We need free health care for all amoebas.
Amoebi?
next we will be hearing the covid virus came from the
permafrost in russia
Essentially: Get a sample of the bug you want to kill off.
Grow the bug in media.
Expose the bug to numerous viruses, in large numbers of media samples.
When you find a virus which kills off the bug, grow large quantities of it, filter through a ceramic filter that allows viruses but not bugs, then apply to people or parts infected.
It was used to kill off Cholera in wells in India by the British, it was reported.
It is bacteriophages:
Ernest Hankin, a British bacteriologist, reported in 1896 on the presence of marked antibacterial activity (against Vibrio cholerae) which he observed in the waters of the Ganges and Jumna rivers in India, and he suggested that an unidentified substance (which passed through fine porcelain filters and was heat labile) was responsible for this phenomenon and for limiting the spread of cholera epidemics.
Phages were reported to be effective in treating cerebrospinal meningitis in a newborn, skin infections caused by Pseudomonas, Staphylococcus, Klebsiella, Proteus, and E. coli , recurrent subphrenic and subhepatic abscesses, and various chronic bacterial diseases. In addition to being effective in the treatment of long-term suppurative infections, phage therapy was found, in a recent study, to normalize tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) levels in serum and the production of TNF-α and interleukin-6 by blood cell cultures.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC90351/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage
China has highest bid on the ancient dormant viruses found in permafrost Biden gives nod and a wink.
We’d better outfit these poor amoebae with some tiny masks — preferably amoeba surgical masks or amoeba N95 masks — without delay! Where are you on this, CDC?!
Also, we need to ensure that amoeba practice social distancing, staying at least 6 feet apart from one another.
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