Seized Laboratory In Sudan A Potential ‘germ Bomb’- WHO
The World Health Organization has issued a warning of a “huge biological risk” in Sudan.
The warning comes after Sudanese fighters seized the National Public Health Laboratory in the capital Khartoum.
CNN reports that foreign nations keep racing to mount rapid evacuation efforts from the country and violence punctured a fragile US-brokered ceasefire.
The lab which contains samples of diseases and other biological material, had been taken over by RSF forces.
The WHO representative in Sudan, Nima Saeed Abid, described the development as “extremely dangerous because we have polio isolates in the lab, we have measles isolates in the lab, we have cholera isolates in the lab.”
The WHO did not appoint blame for the lab seizure but said medical technicians no longer had access to the facility.
In a statement, WHO reports “trained laboratory technicians no longer have access to the laboratory” and that the facility had suffered power cuts, meaning “it is not possible to properly manage the biological materials that are stored in the laboratory for medical purposes.”
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