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The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed guidelines with the cooperation of world wide public health organizations and national health ministries that the member nations in the organization follow to report Infectious Diseases and also developed guidelines to use in preparing for and dealing with a pandemic. They agreed upon the criteria that would signal pandemics. It is the WHO who determines when the criteria is met based on these reports from all over the world and based on their own studies of outbreaks of infectious diseases. When it is time to engage the guidelines and responses to a pandemic , it is WHO that announces this finding internationally and sets things in motion for a coordinated effort in response to the situation.

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