Viral Load
The disease podcast for a diseased world! Hosts: Brett Bayles (a professor) & Andy Pupa (not a professor) gleefully explore the weird and wacky world of diseases on a changing planet.
Viral Load
Time-Traveling Pathogens: Update from Siberia
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Brett Bayles (a professor) / Andy Pupa (not a professor)
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Episode 70
This week the guys jump back to a topic that started it all in 2019 (episode 1). We're talking zombie viruses and melting permafrost. What are scientists finding beneath the thawing ground? Listen to this week's episode to find out!
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- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/driven-by-climate-change-thawing-permafrost-is-radically-changing-the-arctic-landscape#:~:text=The%20thaw%20and%20collapse%20of,over%20the%20past%20two%20decades.
- https://scitechdaily.com/awakening-ancient-dangers-catastrophic-risks-of-time-traveling-pathogens-from-melting-permafrost/
- https://phys.org/news/2023-07-ancient-pathogens-ice-wreak-havoc.html
- https://phys.org/news/2023-07-time-traveling-pathogens-permafrost-pose-environment.html?_gl=1*lf5qof*_ga*OXFKRDc4ZDNaNklxemc2anlKUG84VXhDeC1pdDVSSkpZa21LS21iSHdVQ1ZSSXdtSmIwOVpFN0VJT0VTUVk5Uw..*_ga_6M86390YBL*MTY5MDc2Mjk4OC4yMy4xLjE2OTA3NjI5ODkuMC4wLjA
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- https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/09/13/what-lies-beneath-melting-glaciers-and-thawing-permafrost/
- https://phys.org/news/2021-10-permafrost-bacteria-viruses.html