I am neither a doctor nor a scientist so I’ll relate what I’ve heard in layman’s terms. I’ve heard that infectious things like viruses can last inactively in frozen ice indefinitely. Yes, thousands of years or longer. When defrosted they can become active. That is why some are concerned about glaciers melting. They don’t know what they may contain from long ago. Others are concerned about what we may release from places like the rain forest as we continue to move deeper into it. The fact is, although we think we’re hot stuff, we’re just another species on this earth and there probably is stuff we cannot even see that’s deadlier than Ebola. So in my opinion we should try to live life to its fullest and enjoy it as much as we can as we don’t know what tomorrow brings.
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