http://health.wusf.usf.edu/post/cdc...new-quarantine-powers-stop-outbreaks#stream/0 In case anyone doesn't understand the significance of this, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would be able to legally detain anyone in the country and hold them in a quarantine facility, for as long as the agency says those individuals could potentially be harboring an infectious disease. There are some big civil liberties issues raised with this. Oh, and remember, you can be punished for resisting. It's a federal crime to interfere with their official duties of putting you into quarantine.