{"id":5379,"date":"2014-03-06T21:03:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T04:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5379"},"modified":"2014-03-09T21:06:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T04:06:20","slug":"ice-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/06\/ice-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/giant-virus-revived-from-ancient-permafrost-1.2558417\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from CBC News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<h1>Giant virus revived from ancient permafrost<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Melting permafrost could unleash new human pathogens<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The giant virus obtained from Siberian permafrost was frozen for 30,000 years, but was able to infect an amoeba when it was revived.\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.2558419.1393882145!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/16x9_620\/giant-pithovirus.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"AUTO\" \/><em>The giant virus obtained from Siberian permafrost was frozen for 30,000 years, but was able to infect an amoeba when it was revived. (Image courtesy of Julia Bartoli and Chantal Abergel, IGS and CNRS-AMU.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered a new type of \u00a0virus in 30,000-year-old permafrost and managed to revive it, producing an infection.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the new virus, named<em>\u00a0Pithovirus sibericum<\/em>, infects amoebas and is not harmful to humans.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0its\u00a0ability to become infectious again after so many millenniums is a warning, writes Jean-Michel\u00a0Claverie\u00a0at the Centre National\u00a0de\u00a0la Recherche\u00a0Scientifique\u00a0at\u00a0Aix-Marseille\u00a0University and his colleagues in a new study published Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The revival of such an ancestral amoeba infecting virus \u2026 suggests that the thawing of permafrost either from global warming or industrial exploitation of circumpolar regions might not be exempt from future threats to human or animal health,&#8221; they wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Giant DNA viruses,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/giant-virus-discovered-in-water-tower-1.401070\" target=\"_blank\">first discovered just 10 years ago<\/a>, are so big compared with\u00a0most other viruses that they are visible under a visible light microscope. Before the new virus was discovered, just two families were known.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/giant-virus-revived-from-ancient-permafrost-1.2558417\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at CBC News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CBC News Giant virus revived from ancient permafrost Melting permafrost could unleash new human pathogens The giant virus obtained from Siberian permafrost was frozen for 30,000 years, but was able to infect an amoeba when it was revived. (Image courtesy of Julia Bartoli and Chantal Abergel, IGS and CNRS-AMU.) Scientists have discovered a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}