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 of imported goods==== The United States puts immediate quarantines on imported products if a contagious disease is identified and can be traced back to a certain shipment or product. All imports will also be quarantined if the disease appears in other countries.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} According to Title [http://www.publichealthlaw.net/Resources/ResourcesPDFs/4quarantine.pdf 42 U.S.C. §§264 and 266] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924083040/http://www.publichealthlaw.net/Resources/ResourcesPDFs/4quarantine.pdf |date=24 September 2015 }}, these statutes provide the [[Secretary of Health and Human Services]] peacetime and wartime authority to control the movement of people into and within the United States to prevent the spread of communicable disease. [[File:Columbia River Quarantine Station - Knappton Washington.jpg|thumb|The quarantine hospital building (lazaretto) at the historic Columbia River Quarantine Station near Knappton, Washington]] 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