CDC’s Quarantine Network: First Line of Defense Against Infectious Disease

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• Corporate Authors:
   National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.)
• Description:
  As a regional officer responsible for overseeing operations at 4 of CDC’s 20 Quarantine Stations, Michelle Decenteceo never knows what each day will bring. On a typical day, her teams of quarantine public health officers may inspect a crate of turtles to prevent Salmonella importation or assess an ill passenger for signs or symptoms of a communicable disease. On rarer occasions, they might have to assess an entire plane of passengers who may have been exposed to an infectious person or respond to a shipment of prohibited animal products someone is attempting to import into the United States.
  
  Each day can bring its own unique set of challenges, but Michelle and her teams at CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) work hard to use their available resources in ways that best protect the public’s health. For example, when a member of Michelle’s team received a call in the middle of the night that a patient in another state was diagnosed and extremely ill with botulism and in need of life-saving medication, the team member jumped into action. They raced to the airport and pulled the life-saving medication from CDC’s drug supply so it could be flown to the patient on the next flight, saving that person’s life from a deadly disease.
  
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  quarantine-stations.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Public Health Public Health Practice Quarantine/methods United States Government Agencies
• Series:
  NZEID Accomplishments 2022
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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