Shiloh
Editor, Senior Moderator
Source: http://www.cmaj.ca/site/earlyreleas...lobal-outbreak-surveillance-regulations.xhtml
April 29, 2013
More than 100 countries still not using global outbreak surveillance regulations
Current outbreaks of a novel coronavirus and avian influenza have come to world attention quickly, thanks to a revamped global system of disease surveillance and a vastly expanded role for the World Health Organization (WHO) under the International Health Regulations (IHR). However, the regulations guiding this surveillance, which were adopted post-SARS in 2005, are not yet applied in 110 of the 195 WHO-member countries...
April 29, 2013
More than 100 countries still not using global outbreak surveillance regulations
Current outbreaks of a novel coronavirus and avian influenza have come to world attention quickly, thanks to a revamped global system of disease surveillance and a vastly expanded role for the World Health Organization (WHO) under the International Health Regulations (IHR). However, the regulations guiding this surveillance, which were adopted post-SARS in 2005, are not yet applied in 110 of the 195 WHO-member countries...