You did notice the last section about Federal Quarantines?
Here is a Q&A regarding that level of measures.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dq/facts2.htm
Oh...and for all, note it is by Executive Order.
Here is a Q&A regarding that level of measures. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dq/facts2.htm
Oh...and for all, note it is by Executive Order.
I did not. I'll post it here for the linkage click disenfranchised:
Who is in charge
The federal government
- Acts to prevent the entry of communicable diseases into the United States. Quarantine and isolation may be used at U.S. ports of entry.
- Is authorized to take measures to prevent the spread of communicable diseases between states.
- May accept state and local assistance in enforcing federal quarantine.
- May assist state and local authorities in preventing the spread of communicable diseases.
State, local, and tribal authorities
- Enforce isolation and quarantine within their borders.
It is possible for federal, state, local, and tribal health authorities to have and use all at the same time separate but coexisting legal quarantine power in certain events. In the event of a conflict, federal law is supreme.
Enforcement
If a quarantinable disease is suspected or identified, CDC may issue a federal isolation or quarantine order.
Public health authorities at the federal, state, local, and tribal levels may sometimes seek help from police or other law enforcement officers to enforce a public health order.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Coast Guard officers are authorized to help enforce federal quarantine orders.
Breaking a federal quarantine order is punishable by fines and imprisonment.
Federal law allows the conditional release of persons from quarantine if they comply with medical monitoring and surveillance.
Federal quarantine rarely used
Large-scale isolation and quarantine was last enforced during the influenza (Spanish Flu) pandemic in 19181919.
In recent history, only a few public health events have prompted federal isolation or quarantine orders:
- In 1963, a passenger arriving into the United States was placed under a federal quarantine order as a suspected case of smallpox.
- In 2007, a traveler with drug-resistant TB was placed in isolation.
During the 2003 outbreak of SARS, CDC did not issue isolation or quarantine orders. However, CDC did conduct active surveillance, visual screening of passengers, and handed out Travel Health Alert Notices.