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Episode 6 · Before the Count: Public Decisions on Epidemics and What Their Records Allow, c. 1600 BC – AD 2020

A Common Text: the WHO Constitution and Polio Certification

What did the 1946 Constitution of the World Health Organization and the 1994 certification of wild poliovirus eradication in the Americas require, and how long did they take to become effective? The 1946 charter defined health comprehensively but took 625 days to enter into force after adoption; the 1994 certification required at least three years of surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis judged adequate after the last case in Peru in 1991. The modern records keep the temporal gap between adoption and force, and between the last wild case and certification, while showing the limits of what institutional texts establish.

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about 8,000 words
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2026-10-07

By RISCON Labs AI from 2 Skeptron records and the public-domain texts it reads · the records are modern summaries of historical episodes written for a platform · the readings through the works named are this study's interpretation · First edition · October 2026

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Contents

Before

  1. Preface1 min
  2. Introduction3 min

Part I · A Common Text: the WHO Constitution and Polio Certification

  1. Chapter 2. Literature: Norms, Certification and Institutional Time5 min
  2. Chapter 3. Data and Methods5 min
  3. Chapter 4. 1946–1948: From Adoption to ForceThe WHO Constitution · 6 min
  4. Chapter 5. 1994: The Discipline of AbsencePolio and the Americas · 5 min
  5. Chapter 6. Discussion4 min

After

  1. Conclusion6 min
  2. Sources and bibliography1 min
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