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Record #150795:
Back from the dead: ancient viruses lurking in the polar ice could cause lethal epidemics / Matt Walker.
Title: | Back from the dead: ancient viruses lurking in the polar ice could cause lethal epidemics / Matt Walker. |
Author(s): | Walker, Matt. |
Date: | 1999. |
In: | New Scientist. (1999.), Vol. 163(2202) (1999) |
Abstract: | Reports finding of common plant pathogen, tomato mosaic tobamovirus (ToMV), in three sites in Greenland ice pack between 500 and 140,000 years old. If ice melts, this may lead to epidemics from ancient viruses. |
Notes: | New Scientist. Vol. 163(2202) :4 (1999). |
Keywords: | 551.32 -- Glaciology. 551.322 -- Ice and snow. 551.324 -- Land ice. 616 -- Disease and pathology. 616.988 -- Diseases, virus. E14 -- Glaciology: biological aspects of ice and snow. (*38) -- Greenland. |
SPRI record no.: | 150795 |
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