Germs, governance, and global public health in the wake of SARS
J. Clin. Invest. David P. Fidler, et al. 113:799 doi:10.1172/JCI21328 [Go to this article.]

Figure 1
Horizontal germ governance focuses on infectious disease threats moving between states through international trade and travel and developed through international sanitary conventions adopted in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries; this approach is currently applied in the WHO’s IHR.