International Health Regulations (2005)

In consideration of the increases in international travel and trade, and emergence and re-emergence of new international disease threats, the Forty-eighth World Health Assembly in 1995 called for a substantial revision of the International Health Regulations. The new Regulations will enter into force on June 15, 2007. The purpose and scope of the new Regulations are ''to prevent, protect against, control and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease in ways that are