Port of Entry Quarantine Procedures

[Thornton]

Relevant to posts today:
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?p=72743#post72743

The most specific inbound flight quarantine plan for pandemic influenza is found on the HHS site http://www.hhs.gov/pandemicflu/plan/pdf/S09.pdf
Supplement 9 Managing travel-related risk of disease transmission pages 6-7
S9-4 Managing ill patients at points of entry

If a state or local public health worker and / or quarantine officer decides to meet the airplane or cruise ship and perform an initial medical evaluation of the ill traveler, the passengers and crew should be informed of the situation and should not be allowed to disembark until the evaluation is complete.

Additional information about quarantine stations can be found below.
Of note is that the actual examination and diagnosis of acute disease is a local responsibility.
An Executive Summary of a report on the Port of Entry Stations can be found at
http://orsted.nap.edu/execsumm_pdf/11435.
CDC Quarantine Stations, As of May 9, 2006
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dq/quarantine_stations.htm

JT