Timeline for How will International Law respond if an uncontrolled epidemic in a failed state threatens to become a pandemic?
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| Mar 3, 2018 at 12:41 | comment | added | Richard Stanzak | Vaccinations and antivirals are the cornerstones, but getting them to the affected populace in a belligerent, hostile nation like that of North Korea in a timely manner poses significant issues. My question may have have a geopolitical slant, but it is nonetheless still primarily one about global health law. I am familiar with GOARN and GPHIN and would be hesitant to classify either as only logistics or political entities: nationalacademies.org/hmd/~/media/Files/Activity%20Files/Global/… I am simply seeking the opinions of legal experts here. | |
| Mar 3, 2018 at 2:27 | comment | added | Richard Stanzak | I am seeking the legal framework if possible. I posted a different version of this question on SE Health and they suggested this forum. I have read enough academic literature to understand this is a serious issue that world bodies are unprepared to address and if an outbreak does occur in a similar manner as my scenario, there will be very little time to work out a satisfactory resolution. I was simply hoping for a link to legal rulings other than UN that discusses the control of outbreaks in hostile nations. | |
| Mar 3, 2018 at 2:06 | comment | added | Jason Aller | This question, because it asks about the response, might do better on politics.stackexchange.com than here. The response might be constrained by international law, but the type of response would be a combination of medical input and political decision making. | |
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| Mar 3, 2018 at 0:29 | comment | added | ohwilleke | There are so many things that an outside nation could do that are quite fact intensive, so I think it is pretty hard to evaluate in the abstract. | |
| Mar 2, 2018 at 20:16 | comment | added | Richard Stanzak | Quarantines are routinely enforced for medical outbreaks on a local scale and even nationally as in the case of SARS. But what if the affected nation refuses WHO medical interventions, thereby threatening the peace and safety of other nations. If Highly Pathogenic Avian Flu outbreak occurred in North Korea and it refused the intrusion on it's own autonomy and forbade foreign interventions, a spillover event could occur via migration of the affected birds and could result in the expansion of an epidemic into a pandemic. How would international law protect the world from belligerent nations. | |
| Mar 2, 2018 at 19:58 | comment | added | SJuan76 | What do you mean by "enforcing quarantine"? If I (country X) refuse people travelling from country Y, or at least force them to pass a quarantine in order to admit them, I would say that there is no usurpation of country Y's autonomy as I am just regulating my own borders... | |
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