The incidence of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases continues to escalate: half the countries in the Region reported a high incidence of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases in 2015. WHO responded to an increasing number of outbreaks. These included influenza A(H1N1) pdm09 in Libya, Kuwait and Jordan; avian influenza A (H5N1) in Egypt; MERS-CoV in Saudi Arabia and Jordan; chol...

In August 1996, the International Health Law Committee, International Law and Practice Section, American Bar Association, sponsored a program entitled “Law and Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases” to examine how the emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases affects international and U.S. federal, state, and local law. The issues addressed included international legal rules on in...