International Sanitary Convention for Aerial Navigation (1944)

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The International Sanitary Convention for Aerial Navigation (1944) was an international sanitary convention, one of the international co-operation land-marks in the history of public health, signed in Washington on 15 December 1944, and came into force on 15 January 1945. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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