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The International Health Regulations

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The International Health Regulations (IHR) is the only international legal treaty that explicitly regulates a state’s obligations to the international community on the spread of infectious diseases. The IHR empowers the World Health Organization (WHO) to act as the central repository of all required disease surveillance information, and it details the circumstances under which states have a legal obligation to report disease outbreaks to the rest of the world.

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Youde, J. (2010). The International Health Regulations. In: Biopolitical Surveillance and Public Health in International Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230104785_7

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