Quarantinable disease definition

Quarantinable disease means any communicable disease designated by rule adopted by the department as requiring quarantine or isolation to prevent its spread.
Quarantinable disease means any communicable disease which presents a risk of serious harm to public health and which may require isolation or quarantine to prevent its spread. “Quarantinable disease” includes but is not limited to cholera; diphtheria; infectious tuberculosis; plague; smallpox; yellow fever; viral hemorrhagic fevers, including Lassa, Marburg, Ebola, Crimean-Congo, South American, and others not yet isolated or named; and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
Quarantinable disease means any communicable disease which presents a risk of serious harm to public health and which may require isolation or quarantine to prevent its spread.

Examples of Quarantinable disease in a sentence

  • Quarantinable disease means a specific communicable disease such as cholera, plague, or yellow fever for which WHO requires specific quarantine measures.


More Definitions of Quarantinable disease

Quarantinable disease means smallpox, plague, cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever or leprosy or any disease declared by the Minister by order to be quarantinable disease;
Quarantinable disease means plague, cholera, yellow fever, typhus, smallpox, and any other disease which the Governor may by Notification in the Gazette declare to be a quarantinable disease.
Quarantinable disease means smallpox, plague, cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever or leprosy or any disease declared by the Minister by order to be quarantinable disease; "quarantine officer" means a quarantine officer appointed under this Ordinance; "unauthorised person" means a person not authorised by this Ordinance, or by the Secretary, or a quarantine officer, to do the act in relation to which the expression is used;
Quarantinable disease means any communicable disease which presents a risk of serious harm
Quarantinable disease means plague, cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, typhus and relapsing fever;
Quarantinable disease means cholera, plague, relapsing fever, smallpox, typhus or yellow fever;
Quarantinable disease means a disease stated in Part 3 of Schedule 1”.