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The United States hosts the fifth International Sanitary Conference.

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Beginning in 1851 in Europe, the conferences are focused on creating standard hygiene protocols as part of the work of ending epidemics, particularly cholera. These protocols will be adopted in the late 1960s by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "International Health Regulations."