Quarantine stressing voluntary compliance.
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.
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Cleto
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Advanced Systems and Concepts Office, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, 8725 John J. Kingman Road, MSC 6201, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060, USA. cleto.digiovanni@dtra.mil
Bowen
Nancy
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Ginsberg
Michele
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Giles
Gregory
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D002140:California; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000821:virology; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D008889:Military Personnel; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010356:Patient Isolation; D011790:Quarantine; D045169:Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000821:virology; D035141:Voluntary Programs