ABSTRACT
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was one of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles's regional treaties. It was basically a military alliance of three Asian countries—the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan—with the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, set up in 1956 on the basis of a collective security pact signed in Manila in September 1954. The proposed cholera research laboratory in Southeast Asia would have as its programme three main activities. Those are research on the epidemiology and bacteriology of cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases; the training of selected nationals from SEATO countries both in the cholera research laboratory and in cooperating research laboratories in the United States, and to serve as a base for field studies. In October 1960, a formal agreement was signed by the US government and the government of Pakistan creating the Pakistan-SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory in Dacca.
