Van Wyk, Yazeed; Dippenaar, Matthys Alois; Ubomba-Jaswa, Eunice(Elsevier, 2024-04)
This review investigates the integration of environmental and artificial tracers for evaluating water flow within modified vadose zone environments and assesses how heterogeneous structures and preferential flow influence ...
Recent studies have identified cemeteries as potential environmental reservoirs of multi-drug resistant pathogenic bacteria that could contaminate groundwater sources posing public health threats. However, these findings ...
Van Wyk, Yazeed; Ubomba-Jaswa, Eunice; Dippenaar, Matthys Alois(Elsevier, 2022-08)
The recent COVID-19 disease has highlighted the need for further research around the risk to human health and the environment because of mass burial of COVID-19 victims. Despite SARS-CoV-2 being an enveloped virus, which ...
Human burial in cemeteries facilitates the decomposition of corpses without posing a public
health danger. However, the role of cemeteries as potential environmental reservoirs of drug-resistant
pathogens has not been ...
