After taking a medical laboratory in Sudan: “I wouldn’t fear a ‘bacterial bomb’ yet, but there are other and greater dangers,” says Erika Vlieghe

The World Health Organization (WHO) is sounding the alarm now that one of the warring factions has seized the national health institute in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. Isolated viruses such as polio and cholera are kept in that laboratory. Infectiologist Erika Vlieghe (UZ Antwerp) explains: “Imagine Sciensano suddenly no longer there.”

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