What happens if you get sick with Tibetan viruses found in glaciers

Chief Researcher of the Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N.F.Gamaleya, virologist Anatoly Altshtein

commented on a recent report by Chinese scientists on the discovery of about a thousand bacteria and viruses in the ice of Tibet.Discuss

According to him, these bacteria and viruses are not dangerous forman, because the finds are progress, not danger. In addition, the world has long been filled with various bacteria and viral strains, but nothing is happening, and nothing threatened man as a species.

Regarding the lack of immunity from unknown viruses, Altstein said that in practice there have never been such cases "when a person would be infected with finds from glaciers."

“The finds cannot pose a danger. Discoveries are always progress. When you find something important and interesting, then this is progress, ”said the professor.