Something silly and sort of scary for a Sunday morning.
I (as Mira Grant) was asking to put together a list of potential pandemics for Buzzfeed. I like anything that gives me an excuse to wallow in delicious virology, so...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vozrozhdeniya_Island I had a professor tell me about this place, shared the story of some researchers on a boat nearby the island being exposed to and contracting weaponized smallpox from the soviet outdoor bioweapons lab testing going on there. Best part is, the island is now a peninsula due to draining of the aral sea. Wildlife can and does trod across it now to and from the mainland. oops.
November 9 2014, 19:50:27 UTC 2 years ago
November 9 2014, 23:11:13 UTC 2 years ago
Whoops.