There are diseases hidden in the ice, and they are waking up

[oldcynic]

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Source: BBC


Long-dormant bacteria and viruses, trapped in ice and permafrost for centuries, are reviving as Earth's climate warms.



Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20170504-there-are-diseases-hidden-in-ice-and-they-are-waking-up

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...and climate change is a hoax

[Stuart G]

1. This is very dangerous for all of us.

Nothing more to add.

[bigbrother05]

2. Those would be pre-existing conditions

[oldcynic]

7. it's not funny. Why am I laughing?

[murielm99]

18. You little monster.

(Actually, I LOL'ed). At this point, what else can we do?

The Blob is up there too. Will it stay cold enough to contain it? Can we teach The Blob to eat only republicans?

[mdbl]

45. LOL I wish!

[JHan]

27. lol dammit. lol.

[MontanaMama]

32. Well hell.

I just laughed. Didn't think anything could lighten my dark mood today. 😆

[blue sky at night]

3. Immune System Strength...

If you aren't doing things everyday to boost yours you may want to rethink your personal health regime...What we eat and drink can and does make a difference. I am not putting any faith in "modern medicine"...for the most part they don't understand shit about viruses and unfriendly bacteria and how they affect us everyday.

[AtheistCrusader]

5. Yes, following the food pyramid and moderate exercise wiped out Polio.

[grantcart]

35. Thank God

{couldn't resist your first-class snark}

[Iggo]

14. Yeah, but what about modern medicine?

I'm with you. I wouldn't trust anything called "modern medicine", either.

But what about actual modern medicine?

[NickB79]

33. I heard smallpox was wiped out by ginkgo supplements and yoga

And soldiers in WW2 were saved from gangrene by homeopathic chi realignments.

Fuck that vaccination and antibiotics bullshit, right?

[Moostache]

34. You are dangerously misinformed...

Oh FFS...Please stop spouting pseudoscience in disguise.

Bacteria and virology are VERY well understood and are being further explored heroically around the world every day to protect people like you from yourself.

The benefits of a good exercise program (or maintaining an optimal body weight or more specifically an optimal body mass index) are well known, but they do absolutely nothing to help a person avoid infection from an opportunistic pathogen, and if you are ever infected with a bacteria that we have no known drugs to treat with, well that will be the end of you....and it could happen from something as innocuous as a cut finger if you are terribly unlucky.

"Modern medicine" (and the also I'm sure unpopular "Modern agriculture&quot is largely responsible for the rise in life expectancy from the early 20th century mid-50's to 60's to the current mid-70's to 80's. That is not "knowing nothing"...

[Wednesdays]

44. Their argument is a false dilemma

It is possible to eat and drink things to boost one's immune system, AND put one's trust in modern medicine.

[Codeine]

38. Ferfuxsake, dude.

Take that nonsense back to NaturalNews and let the adults talk.

[dhill926]

4. this is a terrifying article....

[spiderpig]

6. I read something similar many years ago, and details are hazy,

but it had to do with the discovery of a sailor who had died of influenza during the huge WWI outbreak and been buried in permafrost/ice/whatever and his remains were being handled like hazmat.

[sarge43]

41. See my post #40, spiderpig.

It's a real concern and potential disaster.

[retrowire]

8. This is some horror fiction plot level shit here.

But it's not fiction.

Creepy!

[tenorly]

9. That it is.

A 2009 horror flick, The Thaw, dealt with the very premise. Not for the faint of heart.

[petronius]

10. There's also a very cool series called Fortitude, that touches on this premise...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3498622/

[tenorly]

11. Ah. Thanks.

Who knows what other dangers lurk beneath all that ice (massive amounts of methane, 20 feet+ sea level rise...). But we don't dare try to mitigate it because some Big Oil billionaire may have one less billion dollars to brag about at the next orgy.

It's a wonder we've made it this far.

[Inkfreak]

29. Just finished season 2.

A tad confusing and not quite as good as season 1. But interesting as hell.

[NewJeffCT]

42. I did not see last season

but The Last Ship on TBS dealt with something like this - over 90% of the world ended up getting wiped out by some sort of plague released from either the Arctic or Antarctic.

[duncang]

12. Okay now I'm worried about this thawing out.

[tenorly]

24. Ah. So THAT's what Trump and Bannon are.

Figures.

[IronLionZion]

13. Make the World Great Again!

Dinosaurs didn't believe in climate change either.

[red dog 1]

21. + 1

TRump is a dinosaur.

[cstanleytech]

22. The Chicxulub impact taught them a lesson about climate change all right as it

had a global impact.

[Iggo]

15. Sounds like "Fortitude." (No spoliers, please. I'm only on Season 1 Episode 7.) (n/t)

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[elmac]

16. Just hope the worst

preys on the uber rich and fascists.

[orleans]

17. omg n/t

[Javaman]

19. This is how the zombie apocalypse starts nt

[cstanleytech]

20. So what makes this LBN worthy exactly? Is it because there is the potential for some

unknown virus? If so then I hate to break it to you but such potential for some unknown virus has always been with us and ones that were dormant suddenly thawing after a few thousand years is kind of a big yawn.
Even if we were talking millions of years I would tend to yawn as well because its just not that likely to have a major impact on life, in fact if I was going to worry about something more it would be about an asteroid of roughly the same mass as the one that helped kill the dinosaurs and I am not worried about that happening either.
Edit: Now if you want to really worry about something regarding climate change and the melting of the glaciers then I would be worried about everyone that lives on or near the coasts worldwide plus the shift in weather thats bound to create droughts in areas that we humans depend on for producing most of our food.

[red dog 1]

23. K&R

TRump is a hoax.

[ashling]

25. Pre-existing Conditions

[louis-t]

26. This is what happened as the rain forest was depleted.

It may be where AIDS came from.

[Turbineguy]

28. If the republicans succeed

we'll have a nice epidemic.

They're not happy until you're not happy.

[Xipe Totec]

30. Slime in the Ice Machine!

[calimary]

31. Cool. Perfect timing for when many of us lose affordable health care.

Cherry on top of the shit sundae that the small-minded and willfully ignorant love to serve to everybody. Small comfort in that they'll be forced to eat some of it, too.

These don't care what color you are or where you came from, where you live, or the "right" kind of papers or how many guns you have. And they won't care what your last name is, including trump and putin.

Frankly, I hope I'm gone before the polar bears are.

[LeftInTX]

36. I think about half of the US is not vaccinated against smallpox

Here's a funny story:

My son and I were watching a movie, the actor had a nasty vaccination scar.
I pointed it out.

My son says: Mom, I always notice it on you and thought it was a birth defect or something..LOL

[MicaelS]

37. When the next epidemic hits....

The anti-vaxxers and their offspring will be the first to go.

[briv1016]

39. At this point im rooting for the viruses.

Humans are the problem. This is mother nature's way of fixing it.

[sarge43]

40. It isn't only ancient bacteria and viruses

For example, victims of the flu pandemic of 1918 who lived in the extreme north, Siberia or Alaska were buried in the tundra. Their bodies froze and the virus went dormant. Now that the tundra is warming, ...

[benpollard]

43. Maybe some frozen Velociraptors will come back to life...

... and attack the White House.

[mdbl]

46. twump will just put a T-Rex over the white house secret service

to protect him.

[dhill926]

47. what was that Gore Vidal novel about a virus or something that wipes out humanity...

Kalki?

[hrmjustin]

48. Apologies but locking.

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