Sources of Pathogenic Microorganisms and Their Fate during Land Application of Wastes Charles P. Gerbaa,* and James E. Smith, Jr.b a Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 b Office of Research and Development, USEPA, Cincinnati, OH 45268
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Global warming will release dormant germs from ice? By: Stefan Anitei, Science Editor
tomato mosaic virus has been found in 140,000-year-old ice in Greenland.” The first ancient virus discovered in ice was found in 1999 in the Arctic by Rogers and a team from Syracuse University in New York, US. Another team has revived a 32,000 years old dormant bacterium from a frozen pond in Alaska, while a 250-million-year-old bacterium from salt has also been revived.