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Table 2 WHA resolutions on biosafety.

From: Biosafety and biosecurity as essential pillars of international health security and cross-cutting elements of biological nonproliferation

WHA resolutions

• World Health Assembly resolution 55.16 (2002):

“Global public health response to natural occurrence, accidental release or deliberate use of biological and chemical agents or radionuclear material that affect health”

• World Health Assembly resolution 58.3 (2005):

“Prevention and control of the international spread of disease and public health risks”

• World Health Assembly resolution 58.29 (2005):

“Enhancement of laboratory biosafety”

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BMC Public Health

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