April 25, 2023
‘Huge biological risk’ after Sudan fighters occupy lab: WHO
The World Health Organization said on 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. He did not say which of the fighting parties had taken over the laboratory. Abid said he had received a call from the head of the national laboratory in Khartoum on Monday, a day before a US-brokered 72-hour
