'Huge biological risk' after Sudan fighters occupy lab

'Huge biological risk' after Sudan fighters occupy lab – WHO

By Agence France-Presse

Apr 25, 2023 7:30 pm

GENEVA, Switzerland: The World Health Organization said Tuesday that fighters in conflict-ravaged Sudan had occupied the national public laboratory holding samples of diseases including polio and measles, creating an 'extremely, extremely dangerous' situation.

Fighters 'kicked out all the technicians from the lab... which is completely under the control of one of the fighting parties as a military base,' said Nima Saeed Abid, the WHO's representative in Sudan.

Closed shops are pictured in the south of Khartoum on April 24, 2023 as battles rage in the Sudanese capital between the army and paramilitaries. AFP PHOTO

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