Is the Corona Virus New?
Or has it been here all along?
2 min readFeb 23, 2020
In the 1970s scientists from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks dug up frozen soils from the Nome area, the area that had been hardest by a diphtheria epidemic in 1925. The rush to get there is commemorated in today’s Iditarod races. They discovered, in the frozen samples, the virus that had caused the epidemic.
