Sudan crisis: WHO warns of biological hazard at seized lab
By Jake Horton
BBC News
The World Health Organization (WHO) says there's a "high risk of biological hazard" at a laboratory caught up in the ongoing conflict in Sudan.
Officials said it was unclear who was behind the occupation of the National Public Health Laboratory in the capital Khartoum.
The city has been ravaged by fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The WHO told the BBC on Tuesday that workers can no longer access the lab.
And it warned that power cuts were making it impossible to properly manage material at the lab.
Officials said that a broad range of biological and chemical materials are stored in the lab. The facility holds measles and cholera pathogens, as well as other hazardous materials.
A lack of power is also putting depleting stocks of blood bags stored at the lab at risk of spoiling.
In a press conference on Wednesday, WHO officials said it is conducting an "extensive" risk assessment of the potential public health threat following the seizure of the lab.
Fillipa Lentzos, Associate Professor in Science and International Security at King's College London, said: "It could create a risky situation, but it's a regular health lab, not a high containment facility.
"The agents which are in the lab are all diseases which are endemic in the region anyway, so they wouldn't really be classified as high risk," she told us.
Where is the lab?
The lab is near the centre of Khartoum and not far from city's main airport.
It lies just outside the area where Sudan's military headquarters are located, and where a lot of the fighting has been taking place.
The particular geography of Khartoum means key strategic sites which are being targeted, such as military buildings, are close to critical infrastructure.
Both the military headquarters and the airport are right next to a residential area, with several schools and hospitals nearby.
Only a fraction of health facilities in Khartoum are providing services due to a lack of staff, medicine and other supply shortages, power outages, or attacks.
The Federal Ministry of Health in Sudan has reported that 36% of health facilities in Khartoum city are non-functional and another 25% are unresponsive.
BBC News
The World Health Organization (WHO) says there's a "high risk of biological hazard" at a laboratory caught up in the ongoing conflict in Sudan.
Officials said it was unclear who was behind the occupation of the National Public Health Laboratory in the capital Khartoum.
The city has been ravaged by fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The WHO told the BBC on Tuesday that workers can no longer access the lab.
And it warned that power cuts were making it impossible to properly manage material at the lab.
Officials said that a broad range of biological and chemical materials are stored in the lab. The facility holds measles and cholera pathogens, as well as other hazardous materials.
A lack of power is also putting depleting stocks of blood bags stored at the lab at risk of spoiling.
In a press conference on Wednesday, WHO officials said it is conducting an "extensive" risk assessment of the potential public health threat following the seizure of the lab.
Fillipa Lentzos, Associate Professor in Science and International Security at King's College London, said: "It could create a risky situation, but it's a regular health lab, not a high containment facility.
"The agents which are in the lab are all diseases which are endemic in the region anyway, so they wouldn't really be classified as high risk," she told us.
Where is the lab?
The lab is near the centre of Khartoum and not far from city's main airport.
It lies just outside the area where Sudan's military headquarters are located, and where a lot of the fighting has been taking place.
The particular geography of Khartoum means key strategic sites which are being targeted, such as military buildings, are close to critical infrastructure.
Both the military headquarters and the airport are right next to a residential area, with several schools and hospitals nearby.
Only a fraction of health facilities in Khartoum are providing services due to a lack of staff, medicine and other supply shortages, power outages, or attacks.
The Federal Ministry of Health in Sudan has reported that 36% of health facilities in Khartoum city are non-functional and another 25% are unresponsive.
SOURCE URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-65390285
you have to WANT there to be a release of something to be this damn clueless
Why even make dem deadly germs? Period!!!
Because stupid is as stupid does?
Yeah, like pissing into da wind.
When all dem boxes of chocolate be bad enough.
I AGREE 100%
Now, does that mean we should not look to make a virus that SPREADS more, and does less harm? (Like Omicron?)
Okay, I am NOT against the latter.
The problem is that the people in charge CANNOT be trusted.
The TRUE problem is that they PROMOTE from within. Fauci is a Fraud and the perfect example.
I QUICKLY recognized Covid as the HIV debacle, 2.0 ... It's as if HIV was a Dry Run (DId you know, that back then, anyone who questioned NIAID, etc. LOST their PRESS Access? Did you know they ABUSED PCR Testing, to the point the INVENTOR spoke out about it? The book: The Real Anthony Fauci points these things out!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaver_...
I am torn as to whether they KNEW the vaccine was going to be HORRIBLE, or that it was (as it appears) to be A QUALITY control issue. (BTW, one that is SO BAD, that Pfizer Employees selected their vaccines to come from only SPECIFIC batches)
Yes, I think they knew what to expect, and so did the government official "experts" who gave it emergency approval.
Guilty of murder and many other crimes.
Remember kiddos...
There’s ALWAYS another box of ballots under a table.
The latter point is about Nuclear. I would gladly take a GEN IV reactor in my back yard!