48,500-year-old zombie virus buried in ice revived by scientists in Russia

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According to the New York Post, French scientists have revived a 48,500-year-old zombie virus buried under a frozen lake in Russia till now. The French scientists have sparked fears of yet another pandemic.

• New York Post have quoted a viral study which is yet to be peer-reviewed. 

According to researchers, climate change due to global warming is rapidly thawing the ancient premafrost resulting in release of organic materials frozen up to a million years.

The scientists have, perhaps strangely, revived some of these so called "zombie viruses" from the Siberian premafrost.

• The oldest, Pandoravirus yedoma is known to be 48,500 years old and breaks the previous record held by a 30,000 years old virus discovered by the same team in 2013. This new stain is one of the 13 viruses described in these study.

More research is needed to assess the level of infectiousness of these unknown viruses when exposed to outside environmental variables.