Health Minister Lauterbach warns: Researchers activate 50,000-year-old “zombie virus” from permafrost. Not just a warning at Omicron BQ.1.1 and RS viruses: Researchers discover still unknown viruses - climate change releases pathogens in the permaf frost.
Some of these could also be diseases that are transmitted to humans and can therefore be “potentially infectious” Studies from 2014 on the so-called Pithovirus and on the Mollivirus from 2015 were extremely rare and that “do not pose a threat to public health”