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[Blizzard]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/28/health/anthrax-thawed-reindeer-siberia/index.html

I'm pretty sure I saw the X-Files episode on this.

The full details are slightly less stereotypically scifi: 13 people are hospitalized and haven't been PROVEN to have anthrax, but the Russian Ministry of Agriculture is treating them as if they have it. It would be the first anthrax outbreak in the area since 1941 according to the chief state sanitary doctor of Russia.

Lab tests have confirmed that a reindeer died of anthrax. Scientists theorize that a reindeer weak from heat ate the thawed corpse of a DIFFERENT reindeer that died in 1941 and had been frozen all this time, and then infected the people. Or, some experts propose, a reindeer picked up anthrax from an abandoned cemetery where dead people are just put on top of the ground in wooden boxes.

Reindeer are being vaccinated and diesel has been delivered to the region to burn infected carcasses, though recent wildfires have made officials hesitant to do so.

 

[PreFire]

Um.. Fuck

 

[HORRORSHØW]

Call in Kurt Russell

 

[Alcoremortis]

Wasn't this the backstory for Talos Principle?

 

[Reverend Funk]

uh oh

 

[cdyhybrid]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFqjDXy9s5A

 

[BlueTsunami]

It begins

 

[Bluekaveli]

That's not good at all.

 

[AoM]

Someone get the couch.

 

[Toxi]

 

[jstripes]

Fun times.

 

[olag]

Pretty sure there is a Fringe episode on this.

 

[Blizzard]

Wasn't this the backstory for Talos Principle?

Now that you mention it...pretty much.

 

[afternoon delight]

I'm pretty sure I saw the X-Files episode on this.

Lab tests have confirmed that a reindeer died of anthrax. Scientists theorize that a reindeer weak from heat ate the thawed corpse of a DIFFERENT reindeer that died in 1941 and had been frozen all this time, and then infected the people. Or, some experts propose, a reindeer picked up anthrax from an abandoned cemetery where dead people are just put on top of the ground in wooden boxes.

Reindeer are being vaccinated and diesel has been delivered to the region to burn infected carcasses, though recent wildfires have made officials hesitant to do so.

Either way the vector of transmission is terrifying to consider! Dios mio.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

I still can't get over how I have heard nothing about these wildfires on any mainstream news site

 

[FStop7]

I've seen the Tunguska episode of The X-Files, I know how this goes.

 

[RustyNails]

I dunno what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is.

 

[The Flash]

This is how it starts

 

[Applebite]

All of these The Thing and Ice references make me really happy. The whole anthrax thing.. Not so much. The band rules, though.

 

[Krappadizzle]

One of the best movies of all time.

 

[Geist-]

Well, it was nice while it lasted.

 

[Toa TAK]

Now that I think about it... what hasn't X-Files covered?

 

[televator]

Thanks global warming!

 

[Octavia]

Thanks global warming!

"Haha, you thought you all had 30 years left? Nah son."

 

[pr0cs]

Thanks global warming!

I wondered when this meme would show up

 

[TimeEffect]

Fuck. That sounds legit scary. Was also the plot to Talos Principle

 

[Xumbrega]

so that's really how it ends

 

[Imperfected]

A terror from time immemorial awakens from beneath the ancient ice to herald the end of mankind!

Oh... it's just seventy year-old anthrax. That's unfortunate, but not actually that big of a problem.

 

[RexNovis]

Wait hold up Reindeer are poisoning people now? Haha this is some straight up bizarro world shit. Behold the scourge of mankind: REINDEER!

 

[Amalthea]

Or, some experts propose, a reindeer picked up anthrax from an abandoned cemetery where dead people are just put on top of the ground in wooden boxes.

Wat?

 

[Livingskeletons]

I wonder what else lies beneath the ice. I remember last year they uncovered a very well preserved baby woolly rhino.

 

[RexNovis]

Wat?

Welcome to Russia.

 

[Imperfected]

Wat?

Burying people in Siberia isn't necessarily easy. Digging into permafrost isn't fun.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

There's something... buried in the ice.

 

[Blastoise]

This is how the world ends.

o7

Its been a pleasure lads.

 

[Steel]

So, reindeer cannibalism is a thing?

 

[Kickz]

Wait a minute...

Reindeer are real?

 

[Tinfoilhatsron]

Welp. Guess we know why Putin wants Trump in the White House so bad...

 

[karasu]

Wait a minute...

Reindeer are real?

lol

 

[MetatronM]

Wait a minute...

Reindeer are real?

Of course they are. Next you're going to tell me you didn't know they could fly.

 

[iamaustrian]

Anthrax outbreaks can occure everywhere and anywhere. Same like the botulism bacteria it's already naturally "everyhwere" in the enviroment. it's spores are basicly the chuck norrises of germs and can survive over centuries in the soil.

afair france had a pretty big outbreak a couple of years ago and there are regulary cases where drug addicts die of anthrax contaminated heroin.

 

[Electric Eye]

I wonder what else lies beneath the ice. I remember last year they uncovered a very well preserved baby woolly rhino.

Is it laughing? It looks like its laughing.

 

[Amalthea]

Burying people in Siberia isn't necessarily easy. Digging into permafrost isn't fun.

Oops, forgot that.

 

[Sakura]

Reindeer eat meat?

 

[Sammo_1987]

What a horror. After centuries of loving Reindeer as Santa's preferred method of transport, we now learn that they are the harbingers of humanity's end. We had a good run.

This also reminds me of Fortitude (on Sky last year). Pretty sure that involved some kind of unknown disease to appear from a Mammoths corpse found in the ice.

 

[Zombine]

https://youtu.be/EnFc7D0ZoCc

 

[trenchfoot]

Reindeer eat meat?

Ordinary deer can eat squirrels, birds and rabbits if it needs to.

 

[Plesiades]

Time to call Stanley Tucci.

 

[Blizzard]

Ordinary deer can eat squirrels, birds and rabbits if it needs to.

Well, that's a new mental image for Bambi. I grew up in areas with deer and never knew this.

 

[Android18a]

Didn't Stargate have an episode like this too?