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The Story Of The Tenerife Airport Disaster 7 minute read The crash of two Boeing 747s at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport) in 1977 was the deadliest in history. They collided on the runway after the departing KLM aircraft started its take-off run before the taxiing Pan Am aircraft had vacated the strip. 583 lives were lost. The crash was primarily due to pilot error and departure without clearance, but there were several contributing factors. The KLM 747-200 involved in the crash ...

Send to Kindle Demand for regular supplies of affordable meat will create future pandemics that will make Covid-19 pandemic look like a “dress rehearsal", scientists are warning.   Producing meat is creating the perfect breeding ground for diseases of the same kind to emerge, according to the South African academics. The risk is created by humans’ interactions with animals and a lack of learning from the past, they say. The coronavirus pandemic, many of the early cases of which wer...

A team of researchers from the University of Free State is putting this to the test.

Disinfectants could be helping bacteria to become resistant Thought LeadersProfessor Robert BraggProfessorUniversity of the Free State News-Medical speaks to Professor Robert Bragg about disinfectants and how they could be helping bacteria to become resistant. What provoked your research into bacteria and their resistance? I have been involved in research on the control of animal diseases for many years now. The control of any disease in a population (human or animal) is based on three main pil...

Sanitiser superbug: Concern over disinfectant-resistant bacteria which could cause another pandemic By Shaun Smillie Share Johannesburg - In a laboratory in the University of Free State a strain of bacteria is showing an adaptation that has scientists worried. The strain of the bacteria Serratia marcescens has become resistant to disinfectants and this could be the sign of things to come where humankind could end up facing a pandemic worse than Covid-19. "It is not regarded as a serious human p...

South African scientists have warned that rising demand for affordable meat and the expansion of intensive animal agriculture creates the ‘perfect breeding ground’ for the development of viruses that could spark future pandemics. With over 100m confirmed cases worldwide and more than 2m deaths, it is believed that the current COVID-19 crisis started in a Huanan wet market, where the first cluster of cases is thought to have originated. Currently, a WHO team are v...

Cheap meat makes future pandemics likely say scientists in South Africa 71 Scientists in South Africa warn that unless we change our relationship with meat, more pandemics look increasingly likely in the future. Our desire for cheap meat could land us in trouble in the future according to scientists. The term “once in a generation” has been used frequently to describe the havoc being wreaked by COVID-19. Yet some scientists feel that the current pandemic, which has already infected more t...

Keeping meat animals in conditions where they are stressed creates conditions for new viruses to form Demand for regular supplies of affordable meat will create future pandemics that will make Covid-19 pandemic look like a “dress rehearsal", scientists are warning. Producing meat is creating the perfect breeding ground for diseases of the same kind to emerge, according to the South African academics. The risk is created by humans’ interactions...

The Pan Am jet Credit: Getty The “life” of an aircraft is generally quite a mundane thing. It spends 30 or so years in the sky, flying through the same grooves of airspace, with nothing more worrying than the occasional bout of turbulence or heavy weather to ruffle its mechanical feathers. True, it touches down on runways in exotic places and far-flung locations – assuming it is flying long-haul routes. But its three-decade existence is usually a repetitive slog, peppered with an overhau...

Fairfax firefighters routinely denied workers comp after coronavirus infections, union says Antonio Olivo, The Washington Post Dec. 19, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Firefighters battle a five-alarm fire in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County, Va., in February.photo for The Washington Post by Evelyn Hockstein. Since March, about 100 of Fairfax Countys firefighters and paramedics have tested positive for the coronavirus, which its union says is part of the hazard that comes with emergency call...