WHO Warns ‘Huge Biological Risk’ Threatens Public Health After Sudan Fighters Occupy Lab Carrying Deadly Diseases

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World Health Organization officials warned Tuesday that an “extremely, extremely dangerous” situation threatens public health after fighters in conflict-ravaged Sudan occupied a central national laboratory carrying samples of deadly diseases, including polio and cholera.

“There is a huge biological risk associated with the occupation of the central public health lab… by one of the fighting parties,” Nima Saeed Abid, the WHO’s representative in Sudan, told reporters in Geneva, observed by The Daily Mail.

Hundreds of civilians and paramilitary forces were killed or injured in a series of airstrikes in Khartoum last week as the Sudanese army bombed positions held by the country’s RSF paramilitary group in a power struggle that some international observers fear could ignite a full-blown civil war.

Abid said fighters took over the Khartoum laboratory in the African country and “kicked out all the technicians from the lab… which is completely under the control of one of the fighting parties as a military base,” NBC reported. However, the health official did not specify which of the two warring factions gained control of the public health facility.

Abid sounded the alarm, noting that the lab carries a range of deadly diseases, including measles, polio, and cholera while warning chemical and bio-risk hazards also pose a high risk due to a lack of functioning generators.

The head of Khartoum’s national lab reportedly broke the news to Abid on Monday via phone call, one day before both military groups agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire following “intense” negotiations brokered by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

[Ed: See CDC, DOD, Fauci Funded Sudan Biolab Seized by Militants]

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