Pandemic influenza: compliance with public health quarantine laws and policies

Abstract

Recent attention has been focused on the possibility of a pandemic influenza, possibly arising from a mutated or genetically reassorted strain of the currently circulating avian influenza virus (H5N1). In the United States, state and local health departments are primarily responsible for detecting an outbreak and implementing the public health response. The control of a future pandemic influenza will necessarily rely on each individual state's and local jurisdictions' plans to vaccinate persons and detect and contain this disease.