§ 71.32
Persons, carriers, and things.
(a) Whenever the Director has reason to
believe that any arriving person is infected with or has been exposed to any of
the communicable diseases listed in an Executive Order, as provided under
section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act, he/she may isolate,
quarantine, or place the person under surveillance and may order disinfection
or disinfestation, fumigation, as he/she considers necessary to prevent the
introduction, transmission or spread of the listed communicable diseases.
Executive Order 13295, of April 4, 2003, contains the current revised list of
quarantinable communicable diseases, and may be obtained at http://www.cdc.gov
and http://www.archives.gov/federal_register.
If this Order is amended, HHS will enforce that amended order immediately
and update this reference.
(b) Whenever the Director has reason to
believe that any arriving carrier or article or thing on board the carrier is
or may be infected or contaminated with a communicable disease, he/she may
require detention, disinfection, disinfestation, fumigation, or other related
measures respecting the carrier or article or thing as he/she considers
necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable
diseases.
[68 FR 17559, Apr. 10, 2003]
