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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 – it had departed without confirmed clearance. Photo: clipperarctic via Wikimedia The two 747s inv...

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 were linked to a live-animal-slaughter market in China, has killed around 2.2 million people worldwide ...

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 pillars. These are 1) vaccinations and vaccines, 2) treatment options (such as antibiotics for bacteria...

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 pathogen but this strain that we have isolated is extremely resistant to disinfectants," said Profess...