Can a virus be revived?

In Carl Zimmer’s New York Times article describing the recovery of the giant virus Pithovirus sibericum from the Siberian permafrost, he used the words revive and resurrect. Can a virus be restored to life? The headline of the article read ‘Out of Siberian ice, a virus revived‘. Within the body of the article, Zimmer wrote …

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