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2 Context and Content of the CDC Quarantine Station Expansion Plan
2 Context and Content of the CDC Quarantine Station Expansion Plan
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Surgeon General William Stewart (Office of the Public Health Service Historian, 2002) , reflected the public's confidence in the power of antibiotics and vaccines to eradicate such dreaded communicable diseases as yellow fever, plague, cholera, and especially smallpox, which the quarantine stations had worked to barricade from entering the U.S.
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border quarantine station system before 1970, as well as a step forward toward national biosecurity based on today's technology and knowledge of microbial threats to human heath. "CDC Quarantine Stations are gearing up to make the transition from the current focus on federal inspection services at airports to become a full partner in public health response," reads a 2003 proposal by DGMQ (DGMQ, 2003b, p.1)
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Seattle (Airpor t) FIGURE 2.1 The proposed geographic distribution of the 25 quarantine stations in the expanded system.
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The International Office for Migration does the initial processing of these refugees and gives their documentation to quarantine station staff at John F Kennedy International Airport in New York City, who notify appropriate health departments.
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. According to fiscal 2002 data gathered by DGMQ, the 25 cities in the expanded system receive around 75 percent of international air travelers arriving in the United States, or approximately 52 million people, and 48 percent of arriving international sea travelers, or 5.9 million people (DGMQ, 2003b)
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, a medical officer-epidemiologist, three public health advisors at the GS-11 or GS-12 level, and one public health advisor at the GS-9 level. The field medical officer-epidemiologists would report to the lead medical officer-epidemiologist, and the regional supervisors would report to the chief of the Quarantine & Border Health Services Branch.
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2003b. Reinventing CDC Quarantine Stations: Proposal for CDC Quarantine Sta tion Distribution.
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