It’s unclear which fighters have control of a bio-lab, the National Public Health Lab, in Khartoum, Sudan, or why they seized it. The lab stores polio, TB, measles, cholera, and other disorders. The lab works with the WHO, which gets most of its funding from the US. The question now is, do they engage in gain-of-function research? It’s not classified as a high-containment facility.
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, reports the BBC.
“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 the BBC.
Still, fighters with measles, TB, and polio germ bombs is very concerning.
We now know the lab was intentionally seized:
The Bio lab was intentionally attacked in Sudan… pic.twitter.com/sG09uACfQR
— Yumiko (@Hplc23) April 26, 2023
THE LAB WAS SEIZED ON THE 25TH
The WHO warned that fighters seized the lab. The WHO also warned that the situation could spark a “high risk of biological hazard.”
Hostilities between the Sudanese armed forces and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries began on April 15, reportedly leaving at least 459 people dead and another 4,072 wounded.
Speaking to news outlets, Nima Saeed Abid, the WHO’s representative in the country, said that lab technicians had been unable to access the National Public Health Laboratory after it was seized by fighters whose allegiance he didn’t disclose.
Abid described the development to CNN as “extremely dangerous because we have polio isolates in the lab, we have measles isolates in the lab, we have cholera isolates in the lab.”
The WHO said that a range of pathogens are stored at the facility, including measles and cholera, as well as other hazardous materials.
Energy cuts also risked spoiling blood bags kept at the lab, it said, according to Reuters.
Barrons adds:
The UN health agency also said there had been 14 attacks on healthcare facilities or personnel during the fighting, leaving eight healthcare workers dead and two injured.
And it warned that “depleting stocks of blood bags risk spoiling due to lack of power.”
“In addition to chemical hazards, bio-risk hazards are also very high due to lack of functioning generators,” Abid said.
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And the clown show rolls on… but this is not circus, this is real life.
Biological Warfare Labs have been a “Thing” since WWII. Chemical Warfare was WWI. Biological Warfare is cheap compared to High Tech Weapons. There’s no telling who really funds them, but I’m pretty sure the Government and “Oligarchs” fund a lot of them. They can be used without a Declaration of War since it’s sometimes very hard to tell if the Virus was a “Lab Rat” or Natural. As COVID showed us they can kill a lot of people. If you have a really good vaccine they are a near perfect weapon. My gut says that COVID was released by a non-state player against China and China decided to make it everyone’s problem since the research was being funded by the US via Fauci! This is why we must Downsize the Federal Government and get Control of Deep State Bureaucrats.
I’ve been concerned for years, since AIDS, that Big Pharma uses Biological Warfare for profit. How do you prove that “Lab Rat” viruses aren’t being routinely let out the Lab to increase the Sales of Medicines?
You have to wonder, “Why would a Failed, 3rd World Country like Sudan have a Biological Lab?” Then a bigger Question is what was being researched in the Lab and who was overseeing the Research? How much of the Funding came from the Ultra-Rich?
Careful Geek, they fired Tucker, you may be next. 🙂
In my neck of the woods, Hard Shell Baptist Country, I’m the Liberal! Just on the Abortion issue alone the Federal Government is the Enemy of God and all that is moral and good. Down her BLM means Babies Lives Matter!
The thing is that the people here are as sane as they come and since we don’t live on top of each other in High Density Housing, I’m not too worried about Biological or Chemical threats. In fact, the nearest target for a Nuclear Strike is over 50 miles away.
Oh! I’m retired so I don’t worry about being fired.