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The International Sanitary Conferences were a series of 14 conferences, the first of them organized by the then French Government in 1851 to standardize international quarantine regulations against the spread of cholera, plague, and yellow fever. A total of ten conferences took place during the nineteenth century, and a further four in the twentieth century; the conferences played a major role in the formation of the World Health Organization in 1948.