Strains of these Methuselah microbes or zombie viruses as they are also known have already been isolated by researchers who have raised fears that a new global medical emergency could be triggered not by an illness new to science but by a disease from the distant past.
In 2014, Claverie led a team of scientists who isolated live viruses in Siberia and showed they could still infect single-cell organisms even though they had been buried in permafrost for thousands of years.
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