# Control of Communicable Diseases; Foreign Quarantine
> **Centers for Disease Control and Prevention** · Interim final rule with request for comments. · Published 2020-02-12 · Effective 2020-02-07 · 85 FR 7874
## Document
- **Document number:** 2020-02731
- **Category:** public-health
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- **Federal Register citation:** 85 FR 7874
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 71
- **Publication date:** 2020-02-12
- **Effective date:** 2020-02-07
- **HHS docket:** CDC Docket No. CDC-2020-0013
## Abstract

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is issuing this interim final rule to amend its Foreign Quarantine regulations, to enable CDC to require airlines to collect, and provide to CDC, certain data regarding passengers and crew arriving from foreign countries for the purposes of health education, treatment, prophylaxis, or other appropriate public health interventions, including travel restrictions.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/02/12/2020-02731/control-of-communicable-diseases-foreign-quarantine)
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