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Melting permafrost raises fears of decades-old pathogens
Description: In 2011, Russian researchers published a study calling attention to an unusual hazard posed by our changing climate: Pathogens awaking inside the melting permafrost. As a consequence of permafrost melting, the Russian researchers warned, the causes of deadly infections "may come back." That appears to be what happened last summer, five years after their warning. [Source: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
URL: https://projects.jsonline.com/news/2017/5/24/melting-permafrost-raises-fears-of-decades-old-pathogens.html
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Source: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Publish Date: 5/24/2017
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