The Containment Bias of the WHO International Health Regulations
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Abstract The ordinary meaning of the term ‘prevention’ is to prevent harm from occurring. But what ‘harm’? For over 170 years, system now embodied in World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Regulations (IHRs) has answered this question by focusing on prevention disease ‘spread’ across countries, rather than ‘spillover’ pathogens animals humans, which constitute main source pandemic risk today. This bias towards containment deep roots. In historical context IHRs emerged, pathogen spillover was beyond possibilities science time; it also pointless extent that effort focused were already prevalent causing diseases such as cholera or plague. Transposed present day, important consequences for global health governance. Most importantly among these security architecture still lacks a specific spillovers at origin outbreaks and subsequent spread COVID-19, SARS, MERS Ebola. article investigates roots focus containment. Relying proceedings Sanitary Conferences preceded IHRs, well an untapped documentary archive relating revision between 1995-2005, explains reasons underpinning enduring its implications
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عنوان ژورنال: British Yearbook of International Law
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2044-9437', '0068-2691']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bybil/brad001