WHO: Biological Hazard Brewing In Sudan As Fighters Overtake A Central Public Health Lab

By U Cast Studios
May 1, 2023

WHO: Biological Hazard Brewing In Sudan As Fighters Overtake A Central Public Health Lab
A view of Khartoum, Sudan. Credit محسن الفكي. CC BY-SA 3.0.

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Tuesday of an “extremely, extremely dangerous” situation as one of the warring groups in Sudan overran the National Public Health Laboratory in Khartoum. The occupiers had “kicked out all the technicians from the lab,” the WHO’s Nima Saeed Abid said at a press conference, destabilizing a facility housing various pathogen samples, including polio and cholera.

This article was written by Matt Field and originally published by the Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists.

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