# Quarantined

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quarantined/177116>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 23, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quarantined/177116 "2003-05-23T21:24:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Major\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Major\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Kong)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quarantined/177116/1 "2003-05-23T21:24:21Z")

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Are people in the US ever quarantined for disease? What diseases can a person be quarantined for? Can a person be quarantined for hepatitis B?

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**Author:** ![Yeah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/dbc845/32.png) [@Yeah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeah)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quarantined/177116/2 "2003-05-24T00:33:36Z")

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I think you mean isolated, not quarantined. I think there are still laws on the books that permit isolation of some infectious people but the only cases of such isolation that I know of in recent years in the U.S. have been people with mutiple drug-resistant tuberculosis.

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**Author:** ![mmmiiikkkeee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@mmmiiikkkeee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmmiiikkkeee)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quarantined/177116/3 "2003-05-24T03:27:20Z")

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I see you’re talking about the US, but people have been quarentined in Canada for SARS recently… and some weren’t pleased about it. I’m pretty sure the same _could_ happen in the US, but I admit I can’t give a source.