This digitally-colorized, negative-stained transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image depicted a number of Influenza A virions. (Photo by CDC on Unsplash)
VANCOUVER — This study will make you think twice about stepping outside for a breath of fresh air. A team of scientists from around the world confirmed millions of viruses rising into the atmosphere, traveling — sometimes for thousands of miles — and falling back down to the surface.
The study, carried out by researchers from the U.S., Canada, and Spain, is the first of its kind to confirm viruses are being swept up into the free troposphere — the layer of atmosphere between the area where Earth’s weather systems develop — and below the stratosphere, where airplanes fly.
The numbers are “astonishing” the researchers say; but remember, a virus is a tiny particle, little more than a strand of DNA and a mechanism for attaching to organic matter. Scientists aren’t suggesting the slightest bit that we should all return to spending our lives in lockdown again. Countless studies continue to point to the great health benefits from spending more time outdoors.
“Every day, more than 800 million viruses are deposited per square meter above the planetary boundary layer — that’s 25 viruses for each person in Canada,” says University of British Columbia virologist Curtis Suttle, lead author of the study, in a media release.
Scientists have been finding genetically similar viruses in disparate parts of the planet.
“Roughly 20 years ago we began finding genetically similar viruses occurring in very different environments around the globe,” says Suttle. “This preponderance of long-residence viruses travelling the atmosphere likely explains why—it’s quite conceivable to have a virus swept up into the atmosphere on one continent and deposited on another.”
Suttle and his team found that viruses and bacteria are often swept up into the atmosphere by attaching themselves to particles in soil dust and sea spray. The researchers used platforms in Spain’s Sierra Nevada Mountains to detect how many viruses and bacteria were settling there every day. They found billions of viruses and tens of millions of bacteria being deposited there per square meter every day.
“Bacteria and viruses are typically deposited back to Earth via rain events and Saharan dust intrusions. However, the rain was less efficient removing viruses from the atmosphere,” adds study author Isabel Reche, a microbial ecologist from the University of Granada.
The full study is published in International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal.
This article was first published on February 8, 2018
So much for, “Run out and get a breath of good fresh air.”
More like,”Shut the window !”
– they’re trying to kill us.
So what? Like this hasn’t been going on since the beginning of time! You people are gonna melt the Snowflakes into weeping bags of mud:-)
i just frantically brush myself off with my hands every five minutes or so… just to get them off of me. what are you people looking at? STOP LOOKING AT ME ! ! !
The viruses are most likely being sprayed from planes
NO, not “most likely”. They MOST DEFINITELY are being.
Fear mongering load of BS. Bombarded by UV rays in the upper atmosphere these viruses and bacteria are all DEAD. This is just a click bait load for the paranoid, and the study no doubt was another government funded boondoggle.
Big deal, it’s been doing that since the Beginning of time.
“This study will make you think twice about stepping outside for a breath of fresh air.”
SoyBoys find a major excuse to never leave mommy and daddies basement and continue their life of leeching.
Baloney!
My Mom told me herself that my father is Full of it..!
She reminded him that John Boy lived on the family farm until his daddy died and he went into pot production and made his fortune.. I’m 32 and have many more years ahead of me here in Hollywood taking care of Mother and keeping daddy away from her. Plus I’m dabbling in pot growing myself.
Medical companies use planes to spread viruses in the sky, then people get sick and medical companies profit. 😛
Coal ash is used in the aerosol injections. Weather manipulation has been going on for decades. Al though the level of weather control now is extreme. Go to climateviewer.com and learn about the junk in our skies….
I think you’ll find the part of the atmosphere in question is the “troposphere,” not the “toposphere.”
Nano particles consisting of heavy metals like barrium and aluminium from aviation fuel additives is a much greater health concern. Is also why airplane contrails persist and do not evaporate thus severely altering our skies and climate.
I hate to break it to you but those are not contrails.
Yes, I know. But I am not convincing the already convinced in an intelectual ghetto, rather I am trying to convince the unknowing without scareing him off. Dont know if you get my drift.
I remember getting really sick with a high fever in Perth just after a wind brought dust from the arid lands to the East. Guess my body can’t take airborne wallaby poop.
Don’t worry …. after an hour at those altitudes UV radiation kills them. And also remember that not all viruses and bacteria are pathogenic. You would not be able to live without the critters living in your gut.
More disinformation from the dishonest press. Stop illegal immigration and much illness will be prevented.
Covfefe to you, Sir John of Maga!
Sieg Heil Fraulein
Travel along the Rio Grand Valley and listen to the people that try to live there. You will find diseases coming across the border that the US has no experience in treating.
i’m a UTEP grad and dated a beautiful mexican girl for a couple years… roseanne pardo. ** heavy sigh **
That would help verify this guy’s arguments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P8ox8SCVcY
Forget all the millions of viruses, what about the massive amounts of non ionizing radiation passing through your body at this very moment!!!
the tin foil hat is your first line of defense… highly under rated in its effectiveness and stylistic qualities
Sorry, a tin foil hat won’t stop the Neutrinos, ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
i said it was the first line of defense… a couple of lead ingots shoved up your backside should minimize neutrino’s into the colon. good luck!
ignorant troll
i think you’d benefit from a tin foil tampon for your vagina… wear it all month, not just when you’re bleeding!
We are bombarded from space everyday. Of course there is other life out there
UV light kills bacteria and viruses. These may be falling from the sky, but this is not “natural”. Rewriting science now, because rewriting history just isn’t enough anymore.
live dirty and build up the best immune system possible… i’ve been doing it for years