ÜNiTLD NA I lOf .S NATIONS UNIES
W O R L D H E A L T H O R G A N I Z A T I O N
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTÉ
COMMITTEE ON PROGRAMME
THIRD WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY A3/Prog/6 ^
11 May 1950
ORIGINALî FRENCH SALMONELLAE
Note submitted by the Netherlands Delegation (Provisional Agenda, Item 6.4)
The World Salmonella Centre, Copenhagen, renders extremely valuable services in regard to knowledge of the various Salmonellae, and particularly of those which are the agents of human Salmonelloses causing food taxi-infections. Such
cases are rarely serious. Typhoid and paratyphoid В are, on the other hand, more dangerous. These diseases are almost entirely confined to human beings.
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The methods of combating them are relatively -well-known. Nevertheless, in various European countries the morbidity has not decreased f o r several decades.
This is no mere domestic problem for each country as, every year, even in time of peace, there are patients everywhere who have been infected outside' their own country.
For this reason the Netherlands Delegation recommends the Asiembly to request the Expert Committee on International Epidemiology and Quarantine to study methods for f a c i l i t a t i n g the campaign against typhoid and paratyphoid B, in particular by means of international collaboration f o r the discovery of carriers and the application of methods to prevent the infection of articles of food.'
