An international team of researchers from institutions in Russia, Germany a France warns that "the risk of old viral particles remaining infectious" is underestimated. Worse, these scientists now believe that “the risk will inevitably increase with global warming , in which the thawing of permafrost will continue to accelerate," unleashing some of the diseases that have been trapped in the ice since prehistoric times. (Matthew Phelan)

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