and create a breeding ground for dormant spores, scientist claims
- Thawing Siberian permafrost may release viral spores buried for 2,500 years
- Buried mass animal graves that died of the disease could unleash an epidemic
- Anthrax spores can lie dormant until temperature rises to 15°C
- ‘Methane bombs’ found in the region further accelerate disease spread
The coldest city on Earth may unleash vast prehistoric stores of anthrax and other ancient diseases as the permafrost trapping its deadly spores slowly thaws out thanks to global warming.
Yakutsk, in north-east Russia, is completely frozen for 12 months a year but is currently being subjected to soaring global temperatures.
It is also home to ancient permafrost which has entombed and trapped prehistoric animals such as the now extinct species of wild horses and woolly mammoths.
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Exposing the Big Game 
It’s like science fiction becoming fact. There was a television series called “Fortitude” about just such a thing.