Researchers warn that the Arctic could unleash the next pandemic

It all has to do with global warming.

on Wednesday, researchers are warning that global warming may make the Arctic a hotbed for pandemics.The scientists studied soil and lake sediment from Lake Hazen, the largest lake by volume north of the Arctic Circle, and used segments of DNA and RNA to identify theThe team then used a computer algorithm to figure out the viral spillover risk. This term refers to the ability for viruses to flood into new host species and keep spreading.

"Should climate change also shift species range of potential viral vectors and reservoirs northwards, the High Arctic could become fertile ground for emerging pandemics." “Altogether, we provided here a novel approach to assessing spillover risk. This is not the same as predicting spillovers or even pandemics, first because we rely on known virus/host associations, and also because as long as viruses and their ‘bridge vectors’ are not simultaneously present in the environment, the likelihood of dramatic events probably remains low,” explained the researchers in their paper.

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