How do the IHR (2005) help to address the risk of an influenza pandemic in humans?
Under the IHR (2005), all cases of the following four diseases must be automatically notified to WHO: smallpox; poliomyelitis due to wild-type poliovirus; SARS; and cases of human influenza caused by a new subtype. Moreover, in May 2006, concerned about the public health risk from human cases of avian influenza, the World Health Assembly called on its Member States to voluntarily implement in advance a number of key IHR (2005) provisions considered relevant to the current influenza pandemic threat.
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