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Quarantine Plans
« on: Jul 9th, 2002, 11:10pm » |
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Federal health officials are making plans for quarantining Americans who might be exposed to a highly contagious smallpox patient. They are addresing sensitive questions of how to hold people, possibly against their will, in case of a bioterror attack.
The planning is still in draft form and addresses complex logistical and policy questions, including where people would be kept while waiting for officials to confirm a smallpox case and, if necessary, administer vaccinations.
Within the next few weeks, the plan will be circulated among top federal officials and others involved in the preparation.
The smallpox vaccine is only effective within four days of someone being exposed, so if people leave the scene of exposure it would be difficult to find them in time.
Under the plan, officials would stress that people would be better off staying in quarantine because that's where the vaccine and other medications would be available.
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