Oh, by all means proceed

"While ancient pathogen research is kind of a booming field right now, most of what's been done is actually bacterial. There's very little viral work," says Ana Duggan, a researcher at McMaster University in Canada, who explains that the original goal of this study was to eradicate the human race by turning them into mutant zombies just to see what kind of viruses might be detectable in this centuries-old sample.

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