Egypt founded the world’s first international quarantine board in Alexandria in 1831

Evidence

Eventually, and facing the alarming outbreak of cholera in 1831, an international quarantine board was established in Alexandria composed of the different foreign consuls in the city, the first such attempt at international disease control. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1115

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• QUESTION: Worth verifying whether this really was the first international disease-control body, and how it compares to the earlier Venice or Marseille quarantine regimes.