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The rapid exchange of information about health risks that can cross national borders and pose a threat to public health around the world is a key provision of the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005). The exchange of information helps achieve the core purpose of the IHR to prevent, protect against, control and respond to the international spread of disease, while ensuring the best possible performance of international transport and trade routes. The IHR's risk-based approach to information sharing (covering events and threats within and outside the health sector) helps protect countries from risks that nations or their health services alone cannot manage. The IHR operating mechanism is two-pronged: it consists of a designated National IHR Focal Point (NFP) in each country, acting as the central liaison at the national level (legal entity, not individual), and Regional IHR Focal Points in each of the six Regional Offices WHO. A key provision of the IHR is that countries re...