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Permafrost Thawing: A New Potential Risk for the Human Health

1Department of Microbiology, School of Basic & Applied Sciences, Shri Guru Ram Rai University, West Patel Nagar Campus, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

2Unit of Pharmacy, Department of Medical Sciences, Orotta College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Asmara, Eritrea


Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences. 2023, Vol. 11 No. 2, 54-55
DOI: 10.12691/aees-11-2-2
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Jeevan Jyoti Kaushik, Atul Kaushik, Manjusha Tyagi. Permafrost Thawing: A New Potential Risk for the Human Health. Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences. 2023; 11(2):54-55. doi: 10.12691/aees-11-2-2.

Correspondence to: Jeevan  Jyoti Kaushik, Department of Microbiology, School of Basic & Applied Sciences, Shri Guru Ram Rai University, West Patel Nagar Campus, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. Email: jeevan_micro26@rediffmail.com

Abstract

Globe temperature is increasing very fast in the Arctic comparatively elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere; Climate change is at its peak & alarming everyone about the melting permafrost which were frozen many years ago. The ice thaw is becoming a new source of microorganisms which were associated with previously died mammals due to infectious diseases, including the 1918 influenza pandemic, anthrax and smallpox. Scientist’s work and emerging new diseases through revived bacteria or viruses are ringing the alarm to pay the attention towards the permafrost & its thaw analysis. This draft will focus on the current state and attention required on permafrost thawing related to human health.

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