Quarantine Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====US quarantine facilities==== {{update section|date=February 2020}} <!-- quarantine facilities have been operating for Wuhan coronavirus --> The [[Division of Global Migration Health]] (DGMH) of the US [[Centers for Disease Control]] (CDC) operates small quarantine facilities at a number of US ports of entry. As of 2014, these included one land crossing (in [[El Paso, Texas]]) and 19 international airports.<ref>[https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/QuarantineStationContactListFull.html Quarantine Station Contact List, Map, and Fact Sheets] (CDC)</ref><ref name=acrp2008>{{citation |url=http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/acrp/acrp_rpt_005.pdf |title=Quarantine Facilities for Arriving Air Travelers: Identification of Planning Needs and Costs |series=TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 5 |year=2008 |first1=Hollis |last1=Stambaugh |first2=Daryl |last2=Sensenig |first3=Rocco |last3=Casagrande |first4=Shania |last4=Flagg |first5=Bruce |last5=Gerrity |publisher=The National Academies Press |doi=10.17226/13989 |isbn=978-0-309-09940-0 }}</ref><ref group=note>The 19 airports with quarantine facilities are in Anchorage, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Detroit, Honolulu, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York City (JFK), Newark, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, San Juan, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. (Dulles).</ref> Besides the [[port of entry]] where it is located, each station is also responsible for quarantining potentially infected travellers entering through any ports of entry in its assigned region. These facilities are fairly small; each one is operated by a few staff members and capable of accommodating 1β2 travellers for a short observation period.<ref name="acrp2008" /> Cost estimates for setting up a temporary larger facility, capable of accommodating 100 to 200 travellers for several weeks, have been published by the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) in 2008 of the [[Transportation Research Board]].<ref name="acrp2008" /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page