Health Secur. 2017 May/Jun;15(3):261-267. doi: 10.1089/hs.2016.0086.
The International Health Regulations (IHR), an international law under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO), mandates that countries notify other countries of "travelers under public health observation." Between November 10, 2014, and July 12, 2015, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made 2,374 notifications to the National IHR Focal Points in 114 foreign countries of travelers who were monitored by US health departments because they had been to an Ebola-affected country in West Africa. Given that countries have preidentified focal points as points of contacts for sharing of public health information, notifications could be made by CDC to a trusted public health recipient in another country within 24 hours of receipt of the traveler's information from a US health department. The majority of US health departments used this process, offered by CDC, to notify other countries of travelers intending to leave the United States while being monitored in their jurisdiction.
《国际卫生条例（IHR）》是世界卫生组织（WHO）主持下的一项国际法，规定各国须通报其他国家“接受公共卫生观察的旅行者”。2014 年 11 月 10 日至 2015 年 7 月 12 日期间，美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）向 114 个外国的国家 IHR 联络点通报了 2374 名旅行者，这些旅行者受到美国卫生部门的监测，因为他们曾去过西非受埃博拉影响的国家。由于各国预先确定了联络点作为公共卫生信息共享的联络点，CDC 可以在收到美国卫生部门旅行者信息后的 24 小时内，将通知发送给另一个国家的受信任的公共卫生接收者。大多数美国卫生部门都使用了 CDC 提供的这一程序，向其他国家通报在美国管辖范围内接受监测的即将离开美国的旅行者。
