Never-before-seen microbes locked in glacier ice could spark a wave of new pandemics if released

Stunned scientists have uncovered more than 900 never-before-seen species of microbes living inside glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau. Analysis of the microbes' genomes revealed that some have the potential to spawn new pandemics, if rapid melting caused by climate change releases them from their icy prisons.

In a new study, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences took ice samples from 21 glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau — a high-altitude region in Asia wedged between the Himalayan mountain range to the south and the Taklamakan Desert to the north. The team then sequenced the DNA of the microscopic organisms locked inside the ice, creating a massive database of microbe genomes.

Never-before-seen microbes locked in glacier ice could spark a wave of new pandemics if released

could we really see new diseases every few months?
would antibiotics work?
would it be feasible to isolate the area?
might animals get infected and be vectors?

X-Files did an episode on this. something about ice. ends with Mulder saying 'It's still up there Scully' and she replies 'Let it stay there.'

we constantly get hysterical scare news. could this be legit?

a reply to: ElGoobero

Chinese Academy of Sciences took ice samples from 21 glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau

Should we prepare for another accidental lab accident/leak, or is this an excuse to be used as cover for depopulation 2.0?

The media may be overplaying its hand; you can only live in constant fear so long before you say 'F-it'. TPTB are risking a very powerful control mechanism and might want to tone it down a bit, lest they start waking up the sleepers.

Take off and nuke it from orbit.

It's the only way.

originally posted by: nugget1
a reply to: ElGoobero

Chinese Academy of Sciences took ice samples from 21 glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau

Should we prepare for another accidental lab accident/leak, or is this an excuse to be used as cover for depopulation 2.0?

The media may be overplaying its hand; you can only live in constant fear so long before you say 'F-it'. TPTB are risking a very powerful control mechanism and might want to tone it down a bit, lest they start waking up the sleepers.

New toys for gain of function research. Viruses that would have no way to infect humans will be given that ability.

a reply to: ElGoobero

Didn't read the article, but let me guess, these will 'inevitably' be released due to 'climate change'

It's a way they can say everything is our fault because the viruses have been released due to climate change, and put environmentalists up on a pedestal.....all the while further edging God out and fueling hatred for Christians and believers...

In reality it will be the liberal world order controlling and directing the course of these upcoming plandemics...

originally posted by: nugget1
a reply to: ElGoobero
Should we prepare for another accidental lab accident/leak, or is this an excuse to be used as cover for depopulation 2.0?

Imagine what all was released at the end of the last ice age. Somehow life survived that.

IMO the real danger today is "Hello, what do we have here? Let's experiment with it!".

originally posted by: beyondknowledge
And they are saying this ice has never ever melted before?

As I understand glaciers, they flow and melt in places continuously as the weather allows. The snowfall keeps adding to the top to maintain the ice. What happened to all those microbes that have been released by this melting in the past thousands of years?

I'm guessing this stuff has been exposed in the past and never spread due to isolation.
possibly humans have been exposed in the past and still have resistance.
maybe this is where the Black Plague came from, some melted glacier in some remote area.

Well, seeing how science says man is roughly 100,000 yo, we have been exposed to them before. I dare say we can fight them naturally.

Only people in poor health should worry, the rest of us will fight on.

originally posted by: ElGoobero

originally posted by: beyondknowledge
And they are saying this ice has never ever melted before?

As I understand glaciers, they flow and melt in places continuously as the weather allows. The snowfall keeps adding to the top to maintain the ice. What happened to all those microbes that have been released by this melting in the past thousands of years?

I'm guessing this stuff has been exposed in the past and never spread due to isolation.
possibly humans have been exposed in the past and still have resistance.
maybe this is where the Black Plague came from, some melted glacier in some remote area.

I hear you you never know but,

www.healthline.com...

Unlike COVID-19, we have clear treatments for the bubonic plague. Additionally, the disease is rare with a few cases every year found in the United States.

This means there’s pretty much no chance we’d ever see a pandemic play out like the one in the 14th century.

“Unlike in the 14th century, we now have an understanding of how this disease is transmitted,” Dr. Shanthi Kappagoda, an infectious disease physician at Stanford Health Care, told Healthline in an interview last year.

“We know how to prevent it — avoid handling sick or dead animals in areas where there is transmission,” she said. “We are also able to treat patients who are infected with effective antibiotics, and can give antibiotics to people who may have been exposed to the bacteria [and] prevent them [from] getting sick.”

originally posted by: theatreboy
Well, seeing how science says man is roughly 100,000 yo, we have been exposed to them before. I dare say we can fight them naturally.

Only people in poor health should worry, the rest of us will fight on.

Right.....until the greedy ptb get their hands on any given virus.....attach it to a fear driven propaganda campaign and then the same people provide a solution that is arguably more harmful than the original problem.

Looks like the next play is now revealed...endless plandemics.

WHO'd a thunk it?

Doesn't even matter if there's prehistoric microbes or not, or if they can affect us or not. We've just been told how it's going to go and why it's all our fault it's going that way.

We're all in this together.

a reply to: ElGoobero
"Stunned scientists have uncovered more than 900 never-before-seen species of microbes living inside glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau. "

Not to worry, we shouldn't have to get more than 900 more jabs to vaccinate us against those 900 microbes, though that's just the first round. If it takes 4 or 5 jabs per microbe it could be more than 4000 jabs, I suppose. Could this be good news for the vaccine makers?

How did they get sealed in the ice? Wouldn't they have been part of the environment during previous warm climates? Sounds like spontaneous ice germs... or a way to get everyone freaked out.

a reply to: ElGoobero

being that these were found by china is kinda concerning seeing how they don't really give a sh@@ about the rest of the world.
but this is not the first time this has happened and on another continent.

can't find the older ones, i guess my search kung fu is weak this evening, the ones i was thinking of were talking about the lakes in Antarctica
here is one from may of this year talking about finding bacteria that maybe resistant to antibiotics and disinfect,

In a paper published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, scientists from the University of Chile explain how they collected soil samples from the Antarctic Peninsula between 2017 to 2019. When they returned to the lab, they were surprised at the rich diversity of microorganisms found living within these harsh soils.

Among the microorganisms, genes were found that can provide resistance to multiple antibiotics and other antimicrobial substances, like copper and chlorine. The genes were found in a variety of bacteria genera, including Polaromonas, Pseudomonas, Streptomyces, Variovorax, and Burkholderia.

“Hyper-Resistant” Bacteria Discovered Living In Antarctic Soil

originally posted by: apydomis
How did they get sealed in the ice? Wouldn't they have been part of the environment during previous warm climates? Sounds like spontaneous ice germs... or a way to get everyone freaked out.

plenty of vids on the permafrost.