could awaken Earth's forgotten pathogens," The Atlantic wrote in November. The media took the idea of "zombie pathogens" and ran with it. What pathogen would be next? Smallpox? The 1918 flu? On the surface, it looked as if zombie anthrax had somehow come back to life after being frozen for 70 years. Dozens of people were hospitalized, and a 12-year-old boy died. The animals had died of anthrax, and as their bodies thawed, so did the bacteria. A heat wave in the Arctic thawed a thick layer of the permafrost, and a bunch of reindeer carcasses started to warm up.
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