To the question of the history of the development of international legal regulation to counter the threat of the spread of infectious diseases

The article brought to the attention of the reader examines the history of the adoption and subsequent formation of a system of global international legal acts that ensured the formation of a modern international legal framework for the mechanism of countering, both by individual states and the world community as a whole, the spread of infectious diseases dangerous to life and health. Special attention is paid to a number of international legal acts in this area that have their effect at the level of any geographical region of the globe. The analysis of the international legal documents cited in the article allows us to formulate a number of conclusions showing the stages of evolution of the international legal regulation of combating the spread of infectious diseases: from the priority of the purely national economic interests of states to the declaration and consolidation in international documents of the legal obligations of states to ensure social equality in the implementation of the right to health. A significant stage in this evolution was the consequences of the Second World War and the tragic experience of totalitarian regimes that contributed to a qualitative leap in the development of the institution of human rights. In particular, in shaping the perception of the international obligations of states to counteract the spread of dangerous infectious diseases as a form of realization of the right to health. In conclusion, the author substantiates the need for the formation, as a natural continuation, of a new legal thinking aimed at perceiving the right to health as a global right “without state borders”.