Don’t Look Up: ‘Astonishing Number’ Of Viruses Float Down On Us From The Sky
Scientists have been finding genetically similar viruses in disparate parts of the planet.
“Roughly 20 years ago we began finding genetically similar viruses occurring in very different environments around the globe,” says Suttle. “This preponderance of long-residence viruses travelling the atmosphere likely explains why — it’s quite conceivable to have a virus swept up into the atmosphere on one continent and deposited on another.”
Like the 1918 flu.
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