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Executive Order: Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/executiveorder040403.htm

Description:
A list of the communicable diseases for which an individual may be quarantined by federal law. The list includes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and "Cholera, Diphtheria, infectious Tuberculosis, Plague, Smallpox, Yellow Fever, and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (Lassa, Marburg, Ebola, Crimean-Congo, South American, and others not yet isolated or named)." Includes "Questions and Answers on Executive Order and Interim Final Rule." From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Publisher:
United States. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

Extra Keywords
grinfectious CDC

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Communicable diseases
Communicable diseases -- Control
Quarantine -- United States

LII Database Information:
Record 7441 created by Carol Terry on 04/04/2003
Last modification on 05/11/2005
Published: 04/04/2003  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/7441