The chilling implications of an ancient virus dug up in Siberia

The chilling implications of an ancient virus dug up in Siberia | Mail Online: "Last week, some of my fellow scientists ‘brought back to life’ a virus called Pithovirus sibericum, which had been lying dormant 100ft down in the Siberian permafrost for some 30,000 years. As a professor of molecular virology, I find it fascinating that a virus could survive for so long."