Fighters in Sudan have seized a biolab containing contagious disease pathogens, raising fears of a deadly outbreak

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Fighters have seized a biolab in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum that contains contagious disease pathogens, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

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."

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