Ancient virus still packs a punch after 30,000 years

This is kinda of stupid! Why would they be doing this knowing new diseases are NOT A GOOD THING!!

I wonder if this is the reason for a new population controls method

"The virus, pithovirus sibericum, attacked single-cell organisms despite having not done any infecting for a few hundred centuries.

Jean-Michel Claverie, an evolutionary biologist at Aix Marseille-University, is worried because it means that there might be a life-threatening amount of viruses lurking within the Earth's frozen soil layers, waiting patiently to be unleashed by melting Arctic ice. “We might be able to eradicate viruses from the surface of the planet," Claverie says, "but that doesn't mean that there isn't a single particle of that virus still alive somewhere.”"


[link to illuminatireview.com]