PAN
AMERICAN
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
WORLD
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
20th DIRECTING COUNCIL
23rd SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE
Washington D.C., 27 September – 8 October 1971
RESOLUTION
CD20.R24
CHOLERA
THE 20th DIRECTING COUNCIL,
Having examined Resolution WHA24.261 of the Twenty-fourth World Health Assembly on the
cholera pandemic; and
Bearing in mind that the appearance of cholera in certain European countries represents a threat to
the Americas.
RESOLVES
1. To reaffirm Resolution IX of the XVIII Pan American Sanitary Conference, which recommends
to the Governments that they intensify their surveillance efforts in order to provide the earliest
possible warning in case the disease appears in the Americas.
2. To recommend strongly to the Governments that, in applying the measures provided for in the
International Health Regulations with regard to international travelers, they not go beyond the scope
of those Regulations.
