A 48,500-year-old "zombie" virus has been revived by a team of European scientists from the permafrost in Siberia. Its very name has sparked fears in many that a zombie pandemic might soon be on the horizon. But the virus itself is no threat to humans—it only infects amoeba. Still, hundreds of Twitter users raised concerns about the research, saying that the revived viruses could open up a Pandora's box of infectious disease—a play on the name of the oldest isolated virus, Pandoravirus yedoma. These fears are not new and, in August 2022, a trend on TikTok sparked widespread panic that…