Two workers at Germany’s Frankfurt airport who caught malaria from a mosquito thought to have arrived on a plane have died, the city’s health authority said this week. Airport officials had earlier said one employee had perished, with six workers infected. The Robert Koch Institute said an imported Anopheles mosquito carried over by an aircraft…
Washington — Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general is on hold as Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas leverages his vote in exchange for an agreement in writing to formally kill the Justice Department’s “anti-weaponization fund.” The Senate Judiciary Committee was set to vote Thursday on advancing Blanche’s nomination, but Cornyn, a pivotal vote on…
The deaths of 15 elephants over the past month in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park have sparked an investigation, wildlife officials said Tuesday. The Kenya Wildlife Service said 10 of the pachyderms showed signs of partial paralysis before dying within two days, while the remaining five were found dead, with their carcasses partially consumed by scavengers….
