{"id":13460,"date":"2024-02-18T14:19:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T14:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/?p=13460"},"modified":"2024-07-26T14:21:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T14:21:54","slug":"the-couple-trying-to-keep-killer-zombie-viruses-at-bay-and-protect-us-from-another-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/the-couple-trying-to-keep-killer-zombie-viruses-at-bay-and-protect-us-from-another-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"The couple trying to keep killer \u2018zombie viruses\u2019 at bay \u2013 and protect us from another pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-mo\">\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bc<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13460\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>\u3002<\/p><p><span class=\"e-byline__bytext\">By<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"e-byline__details\"><span class=\"e-byline__author\" data-test=\"author-name\">Simon Usborne<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source the telegraph<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Michel Claverie was already at retirement age when he travelled to Siberia to hunt for ancient viruses in the Arctic. After a long career as a research scientist \u2013 and 25 years since he had set up a laboratory outside Marseille with his wife Chantal Abergel \u2013 he could have put his feet up. He and Abergel, who is 62, commute to their lab from a comfortable house near the pretty harbour town of Cassis. But Claverie, who was about to turn 70, had no intention of hanging up his lab coat.<\/p>\n<p>It took days, several flights and a ride in a rickety boat made from old war plane parts to reach the banks of the Kolyma river west of Chersky,\u00a0a remote town not far from the East Siberian Sea. Once a transit hub for Soviet Gulags, Chersky and its river had become a magnet for scientists trying to unearth secrets from the frozen deep.<\/p>\n<p>Read more<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/couple-zombie-virus-france-preventing-pandemic\/\"> https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/couple-zombie-virus-france-preventing-pandemic\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bcEnglish\u3002By\u00a0Simon Usborne Source the telegraph Jean-Michel Claverie was already at retirement age when he travelled to Siberia to hunt for ancient viruses in the Arctic. After a long career as a research scientist \u2013 and 25 years since he had set up a laboratory outside Marseille with his wife Chantal Abergel \u2013 he could have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-primary-healthcare-1","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13462,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13460\/revisions\/13462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}