A giant virus that lay dormant under the Siberian permafrost for 30,000 years, has come back to life.
The ancient pathogen called Pithovirus sibericum which belongs to a class of "giant viruses", was discovered by a team of French scientists. It had been sleeping 30m down in the frozen ground...
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