If Delaware had a person infected with H5N1 who contracted the disease from birds in Asia, would we quarantine their family, other contacts in the U.S.?
The first step Delaware would take is to activate its usual public health response to a communicable disease in an effort to identify the disease, track it and control spread. If this were to be the first case reported or one where there had not yet been regional spread of the disease, yes, DPH would quarantine the exposed family. Other contacts may be quarantined or isolated depending on exposure or evidence of symptoms. There is no way now to predict the number of people affected. A lot would depend on intensity, frequent, and duration of contact with the infectious agent.
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