For the first time in Africa, researchers said Wednesday they have detected a malaria parasite that is partially resistant to the top anti-malaria drug, artemisinin, raising concern about efforts to fight a disease that sickens hundreds of millions of people each year. The discovery means that Africa now joins southeast Asia in hosting such drug-resistant … Read more
University buildings were evacuated when a student accidentally made the same highly explosive substance that was used in the Paris terror attacks. An investigation by Bristol University has found that triacetone triperoxide (TATP) was “unintentionally formed during a routine procedure”. A cordon was set up around the university’s chemistry block during the incident earlier this … Read more
Three people including a 16-year-old have been charged in southern France on suspicion of planning an ‘imminent’ terror attack, judicial sources said. The three – arrested on Friday near the coastal city of Montpellier – were identified as Thomas Sauret, 20; his partner, a 16-year-old minor named only as Sarah; and Malik Hammami, 33. They … Read more
Doctors have raised fresh concerns that drug-resistant forms of malaria may be emerging across Africa. A key malaria treatment has failed for the first time in Britain to cure four patients who had become infected after travelling to Uganda, Angola and Liberia. They initially responded well to an anti-malarial therapy (artemether-lumefantrine) but relapsed a month … Read more