[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1, Parts 1 to 399]
[Revised as of October 1, 2000]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR71.32]

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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
                    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE,
                        DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
                             HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 71--FOREIGN QUARANTINE--Table of Contents
 
     Subpart D--Health Measures at U.S. Ports: Communicable Diseases
 
Sec. 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 paragraph (b) of this section, he/she may detain, 
isolate, or place the person under surveillance and may order 
disinfection or disinfestation as he/she considers necessary to prevent 
the introduction, transmission, or spread of the listed communicable 
diseases.
    (b) The communicable diseases authorizing the application of 
sanitary, detention, and/or isolation measures under paragraph (a) of 
this section are: cholera or suspected cholera, diphtheria, infectious 
tuberculosis, plague, suspected smallpox, yellow fever, or suspected 
viral hemorrhagic fevers (Lassa, Marburg, Ebola, Congo-Crimean, and 
others not yet isolated or named).
    (c) 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, disinsection, 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.