{"id":105163,"date":"2020-04-11T12:46:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T19:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/viruses-lots-of-them-are-falling-from-the-sky"},"modified":"2020-04-11T12:46:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T19:46:05","slug":"viruses-lots-of-them-are-falling-from-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/viruses-lots-of-them-are-falling-from-the-sky","title":{"rendered":"Viruses \u2014 lots of them \u2014 are falling from the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something we may need to consider if there are evidently now people in remote Amazonian tribes dying from Covid-19\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An astonishing number of viruses are circulating around the Earth\u2019s atmosphere \u2014 and falling from it \u2014 according to new research from scientists in Canada, Spain and the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The study marks the first time scientists have quantified the viruses being swept up from the Earth\u2019s surface into the free troposphere, that layer of atmosphere beyond Earth\u2019s weather systems but below the stratosphere where jet airplanes fly. The viruses can be carried thousands of kilometres there before being deposited back onto the Earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day, more than 800 million viruses are deposited per square metre above the planetary boundary layer \u2014 that\u2019s 25 viruses for each person in Canada,\u201d said University of British Columbia virologist Curtis Suttle, one of the senior authors of a paper in the International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal that outlines the findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something we may need to consider if there are evidently now people in remote Amazonian tribes dying from Covid-19\u2026 An astonishing number of viruses are circulating around the Earth\u2019s atmosphere \u2014 and falling from it \u2014 according to new research from scientists in Canada, Spain and the U.S. The study marks the first time scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}