‘Black swan’ pathogens from ancient permafrost may be getting ready to wake up | Live Science
Ancient pathogens that have been locked away for hundreds of thousands of years are starting to emerge from permafrost as climate change takes hold and around 1% of these could pose a substantial risk to modern ecosystems, a study has found.
“It is the first attempt to try modeling the potential ecological effect of these kinds of time-traveling invaders from a quantitative perspective,” Giovanni Strona, a professor of ecological data sciences at the University of Helsinki and co-author of the study, told Live Science.
But don’t worry. WHO is on the case.