{"id":7421,"date":"2021-08-01T09:35:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T08:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7407"},"modified":"2022-12-28T11:52:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T11:52:28","slug":"ancient-virus-fears-at-loch-ness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/08\/01\/ancient-virus-fears-at-loch-ness\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Virus Fears At Loch Ness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The race is on to try and DNA map newly emerged ancient viral strains from bottom coring at Loch Ness. <\/p><div id=\"lochn-2197126429\" class=\"lochn-content lochn-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3003812232025940\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3003812232025940\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;I have been worried that vigorous coring and reaming of the loch&#8217;s bottom could provide a route for viral agents that have long since disappeared from earth&#8217;s biosphere to resurface&#8221;<\/em>, Professor Kettle told this blog. <em>&#8220;If we can&#8217;t identify and  neutralise these things then Covid 19 Coronavirus might look like a walk in the park&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"154\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/birdflu.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7465\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ancient Virus Fears<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Some of the mutations discovered have now been taken to the US Centre for Extreme Toxins, close to the site of the Manhattan Project. Here they will be sealed into a glass and concrete bio containment lad 400 metres beneath the desert. Robot analysers will be used to identify and index the viruses. If a leak occurs, these mutations are considered so dangerous that a small nuclear weapon will detonate, completely destroying the laboratory and its contents. Safety is now the number one priority after Covid and Ebola have wreaked so much havoc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;We&#8217;re taking every precaution as some of the life forms beneath Loch Ness have proved very dangerous&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/15-000-year-old-viruses-from-melting-tibetan-glaciers-hold-insights-into-earth-s-past\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Similar research is going on in <\/a>Tibetan glaciers &#8211; another link to Loch Ness, which was itself formed by a mile thick glacier during the last ice age. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The race is on to try and DNA map newly emerged ancient viral strains from bottom coring at Loch Ness. &#8220;I have been worried that vigorous coring and reaming of the loch&#8217;s bottom could provide a route for viral agents that have long since disappeared from earth&#8217;s biosphere to resurface&#8221;, Professor Kettle told this blog. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/08\/01\/ancient-virus-fears-at-loch-ness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ancient Virus Fears At Loch Ness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[82,91,182,233,320,326,328,332,333,408,413],"class_list":["post-7421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid19","tag-highlands","tag-loch-ness-monster","tag-research","tag-science","tag-scientific","tag-scotland","tag-scottish","tag-virus","tag-visitscotland"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7466,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421\/revisions\/7466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}