Regulations found at 42 CFR Part 70
require that a person who is in the communicable period of cholera,
plague, smallpox, typhus, or yellow fever or who, having been
exposed to any such disease, is in the incubation period thereof,
request a permit from the Surgeon General or his/her designated
representative to travel from one State to another, if that State
has a requirement for such a permit. The regulation further
requires that the master of a vessel or a person in charge of a
conveyance engaged in interstate traffic, on which a suspected case
of communicable disease develops shall notify the local health
authority at the next port of call, station, or stop, and take such
measures to prevent the spread of the disease as the local health
authority directs.
US Code:
42 USC
70 Name of Law: Interstate Quarantine
US Code: 42
USC 241 Name of Law: Public Health Service Act
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