WHO says there is a biological risk after lab take-over in Sudan
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> Fighters have occupied a national public laboratory in Sudan holding samples of diseases including polio and measles, creating an "extremely, extremely dangerous" situation, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday. 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
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> ... the WHO's Nima Saeed Abid said gunmen had thrown technicians out of the National Public Health Laboratory. "This is the main concern: no accessibility to the lab technicians to go to the lab and safely contain the biological material and substances available," he said.
A pathogen escaping an obscure lab in Africa is probably the last thing the world needs right now :-(
Both cryopreserved and cryodesiccation viruses needs special handling. I don't think these fighters are mastermind terrorists, but in case I'm wrong, then I hope survaliance is keeping track of cryotransports and some carrier group can be convinced to take action with a short notice.
However, I do think there's some risk--looting. Something dangerous might be unknowingly carried out of there and there's a variety of pretty nasty things they might have samples of.