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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 visiting sites in the Chinese city of Wuhan, attempting to piece together the puzzle of how SARS-CoV-...

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 than 16 million people and killed more than 600,000 people worldwide, is only a dress rehearsal for a...

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 overhaul or two. The afterlife may bring a last photo-opportunity, if the retiree makes it to the fabled av...

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 County's firefighters and paramedics have tested positive for the coronavirus, which its union says is part of the hazard that comes with emergency calls involving residents who've been infected, then sleeping in sometimes crowded fire stations for d...