Website review: Climate Threat: Thawing Tundra Rele...
onley1 discovered this in Environment
•11 reviews since Mar 27, 2008
environment, global-warming, disease
•livescience.com/environment/080327-smallpox-c...
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onley1 discovered 3 months ago- wow! i wonder how many other secondary effects of warming have yet to show themselves?
From the page:
Smallpox was a vicious disease before its eradication in the 1970s, but the virus is hardy and can survive long-term storage. One such storage unit is the tundra of the high northern latitudes that preserves an unknown number of bodies that could have died from smallpox. Global warming is now rapidly thawing this freezer, increasing the chance that someone could come into contact with a smallpox-infested body, thereby reintroducing the disease.- wow! i wonder how many other secondary effects of warming have yet to show themselves?
- herdmentality rated 3 months ago
- Zoombies are real. These thawing bodies could release deadly viruses that will turn the rest of into them - Dead people, that is.
- patoloco rated 3 months ago
- I too, am more worried about the zombie plague that will most assuredly be released with GLOBAL WARMING! Booooo-hoooooo! Scary! And this wasn't from that global warming site, either. Swear.
- fee-d-argent rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "Yards and yards of clear plastic sheeting line the cellar floor, dwarfing the corpse: headless, frail, supine. The young bony arms - covered in fine black powder from centuries of immobility in the frozen tundra - are crossed at rest, reminiscent of a ceremonial burial. Camera flashes illuminate the scene. Several dozen scientists stand around the body, murmuring in Russian and English about the find of the day. How long do you think it was buried? Do you think it's male or female? How did they get it back to camp? And the pervasive thought: I don't think we should touch it. He could have died of smallpox." Ish.... Smallpox !?!
- demonveen rated 3 months ago
- So wait -- I read the article three times -- have any corpses infected with small-pox actually been discovered or is this like every other article I have ever read that mentions global warming?
- Lolaone rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "Imre Friedmann remembers the day that the body was found. He trudged into the station, finally escaping the plague of swarming mosquitoes, to be told of the body in the cellar. âoeEverybody avoided handling it,â he recounts in precise, accented English. Friedmann, affiliated with the NASA Ames Research Center, traveled to the Arctic to study the bacteria that thrive in the extreme climate of this region."Thank you yobaba.stumbleupon.com
- Quirken rated 3 months ago
- Could global warming reintroduce smallpox? Whether the fear has any grounding or not, this was interesting
- newwes rated 3 months ago
- Make sure you read to the bottom of the article, where the truth is revealed - not much, if anything, to really worry about. Is there ANYTHING these alarmist jackasses will not try to lay at the feet of "man-made" global warming.
- yobaba rated 3 months ago
- "How long do you think it was buried? Do you think it's male or female? How did they get it back to camp? And the pervasive thought: I don't think we should touch it. He could have died of smallpox." Holy scat ... never thought of this. I guess it is time to start thinking about it, however ...
- shadowpool rated 3 months ago
- I wonder what other types of viruses are frozen there? Hmmmm.
- Imupabvit rated 3 months ago
- What about the zombie plague? Will that also be released? I hope so...
