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Declaration of Microcephaly Clusters and other Neurological Disorders in Zika-Affected Areas as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (WHO)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Ana S. Ayala
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International Legal Materials , Volume 55 , Issue 5 , October 2016 , pp. 1007 - 1014
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

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* This text was reproduced and reformatted from the text available at the World Health Organization website (visited October 1, 2016), http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2016/1st-emergency-committee-zika/en/.

* This text was reproduced and reformatted from the text available at the World Health Organization website (visited October 1, 2016), http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2016/1st-emergency-committee-zika/en/.

1 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention [CDC], https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/index.html (last visited Oct. 15, 2016).

2 Zika Virus Infection — Brazil and Colombia, World Health Organization [WHO] (Oct. 21, 2015), http://www.who.int/csr/don/21-october-2015-zika/en.

3 See WHO Statement on the First Meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR 2005) Emergency Committee on Zika Virus and Observed Increase in Neurological Disorders and Neonatal Malformations, WHO (Feb. 1, 2016), http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2016/1st-emergency-committee-zika/en [hereinafter First Meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee]; Guillain– Barre´ Syndrome: Factsheet, WHO, http://who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/guillain-barre-syndrome/en (last updated Oct. 2016).

4 About Zika: Overview, CDC, https://www.cdc.gov/zika/ about/overview.html (last visited Oct. 15, 2016).

5 See Microcephaly: Fact Sheet, WHO (Mar. 2, 2016), http://who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/microcephaly/en [hereinafter Microcephaly: Fact Sheet].

6 Facts about Microcephaly, CDC, http://www.cdc.gov/ ncbddd/birthdefects/microcephaly.html (last visited Oct. 15, 2016); see also Microcephaly: Fact Sheet, supra note 5.

7 See All Countries & Territories with Active Zika Virus Transmission, CDC, https://www.cdc.gov/zika/geo/active-countries.html (last visited Oct. 15, 2016).

8 States Parties to the International Health Regulations (2005), WHO http://www.who.int/ihr/legal_issues/states_parties/en (last visited Oct. 15, 2016).

9 WHO, International Health Regulations (2005), art. 1 (May 23, 2005).

10 Id. arts. 48–49.

11 Id. art. 12.

12 WHO, Report of the Ebola Interim Assessment Panel, ¶ 21 (July 2015), available at http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/ebola/ebola-panel-report/en.

13 See generally Abeysinghe, Sudeepa, Vaccine Narratives and Public Health: Investigating Criticisms of H1N1 Pandemic Vaccination, 7 Plos. Curr, 1371 (2015)Google ScholarPubMed.

14 First Meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee, supra note 3.

15 See id.

16 See id.

17 See Ted Barrett & Manu Raju, Still No Deal on Zika and Government Funding, CNN (Sep. 19, 2016), http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/19/politics/zika-funding-congress.