Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in January 2006 to set up a new passenger database to track possible disease vectors and bioterrorism outbreaks.
CDC proposed significant changes in quarantine rules in an effort to broaden the definition of reportable illnesses, to centralise their reporting to the federal government and to require the airline and shipping industries to keep passenger manifests electronically for 60 days. More passenger information is also required, in addition to those already being collected and dispatched to the US Department of Homeland Security under its Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) programme.
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15 March 2007
