What part of the Public Health Service Act is the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ) responsible for?
DGMQ is responsible for implementing quarantine laws of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264(b)). DGMQ has the statutory responsibility to make and enforce regulations necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the United States. Quarantine regulations apply to all persons entering the United States, whether legally or illegally. The following communicable diseases are specified as quarantinable by Executive Order of the President, as amended April 11, 2005: Cholera; Diphtheria; infectious Tuberculosis; Plague; Smallpox; Yellow Fever; and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (Lassa, Marburg, Ebola, Crimean-Congo, South American, and others not yet isolated or named); Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome; and influenza caused by novel or reemerging influenza viruses that are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic.
