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- Can be ordered by state or federal government agenciesCDC: Isolation and Quarantine
- Regulated by the Centers for Disease Control in the United StatesCDC: Isolation and Quarantine
- Commonly used to prevent the spread of communicable diseasesCDC: Isolation and Quarantine
- Widely used during the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918 and 1919CDC: Isolation and Quarantine
- One person placed in isolation in 1963 with smallpoxCDC: Isolation and Quarantine
- Another person isolated in 2007 with drug-resistant tuberculosisCDC: Isolation and Quarantine
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To prevent the spread of communicable diseases, government agencies can institute isolation orders, requiring someone with a virus or disease to stay in a specific location until they are no longer contagious.CDC: Isolation and Quarantine
In response to the April 2009 swine flu outbreak, several infected individuals have been ordered into isolation in order to not infect others. The swine flu, which has claimed 152 lives in Mexico as of April 28, 2009, was considered a level four pandemic by the World Health Organization, meaning human-to-human transmission was occurring.The News & Observer: N.C. Officials Order Sick to Stay Home
Federal Isolation Diseases
- CholeraCDC: Isolation and Quarantine
- DiphtheriaCDC: Isolation and Quarantine
- Infectious tuberculosisCDC: Isolation and Quarantine
- PlagueCDC: Isolation and Quarantine
- SmallpoxCDC: Isolation and Quarantine
- Yellow fever
- Viral hemorrhagic feversCDC: Isolation and Quarantine
- SARSCDC: Isolation and Quarantine
- Flu that can cause a pandemicCDC: Isolation and Quarantine
Isolation vs. Quarantine
In isolation, those infected with a communicable disease are secluded from the general public in order to prevent the virus or disease from spreading to the healthy general public.CDC: Isolation and QuarantineQuarantine differs from isolation in that people who appear to be healthy, but have been exposed to a communicable disease, are secluded to see if they become ill. In cases of several communicable diseases, there may be in incubation period in which someone could carry and transmit to others, without showing symptoms of illness.CDC: Isolation and Quarantine
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