Quarantine Stressing Voluntary Compliance

Abstract

A 1-day table-top exercise in San Diego, California, in December 2004 emphasized voluntary compliance with home quarantine to control an emerging infectious disease outbreak. The exercise heightened local civilian-military collaboration in public health emergency management. Addressing concerns about lost income by residents in quarantine was particularly challenging.

Keywords

• quarantine (human)
• bioterrorism
• infection control
• risk communications
• consequence management
• table-top exercises