Again, while the Secretary
of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services has statutory responsibility
for preventing the introduction, transmission, and spread of communicable
diseases from foreign countries into the U.S. and between states, states and their
localities have primary responsibility for isolation and quarantine within
their borders.
These are titles of the
sections in the Maine statute that describe authority of the Department for
quarantine (the limitation of movement of individuals who have been exposed
to a communicable disease) and isolation (the separation of an infectious
person to prevent spread of an infectious agent to others).
