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Does drilling into deep Antarctic lakes (or any isolated environment) present an elevated risk of reintroducing a disease to existing environments? Do the people doing this work need to take precautions beyond what is usually required with sampling any other environment?

by /u/Wobbles42 in /r/askscience

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