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By Executive Order of the President, federal isolation and quarantine are authorized for these communicable diseases:

• Cholera
• Diphtheria
• Infectious tuberculosis
• Plague
• Smallpox
• Yellow fever
• Viral hemorrhagic fevers
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
• Flu that can cause a pandemic

Last Updated: 09/04/2009

• What is the difference between isolation and quarantine?
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