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International co-operation in the field of health dates from 1851 when the first International Sanitary Conference was held in Paris. The driving force in this and subsequent conferences until the outbreak of the First World War was the desire to control the spread of serious epidemics of cholera, plague and yellow fever which killed scores of thousands of Europeans. Co-operation was restricted to European nations and later the American republics.
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Martin, J. (1984). Commonwealth Co-operation in the Field of Health. In: Groom, A.J.R., Taylor, P. (eds) The Commonwealth in the 1980s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05691-0_8
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