Zombie virus: What is it and how climate change can trigger its spread

Scientists have revived the 'zombie' virus from Arctic's permafrost that was trapped for 48,500 years. Why have they done this and what risk it poses to you?

Scientists have revived the ‘zombie’ virus from the Arctic’s permafrost that was trapped for 48,500 years, the Euro News reported.
 

In a recently published study, French researcher Jean-Michel Claverie and his team claimed that they managed to isolate and revive several ancient viruses from the permafrost, including a giant virus strain (Pithovirus) found in a 27,000-year-old permafrost sample containing a lot of mammoth wool. And most of the virus isolates were of the Pandoraviridae family, a family of double-stranded DNA viruses that infect amoebae, the report said.
 

“This study confirms the capacity of large DNA viruses infecting Acanthamoeba to remain