Honolulu Quarantine Station

Jurisdiction

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) operates a quarantine station in Honolulu. The station’s jurisdiction includes all ports in Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, the Freely Associated States, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Quarantine Station Activities

• Respond to reports of illness or death on airplanes, cruise and cargo vessels at the international ports of entry in the jurisdiction.
• Review and collect medical records of migrants who will reside permanently in the United States. Notify state and local health departments of any migrants with specific medical conditions.
• Monitor the importation of pathogens that may be infectious to humans.
• Partner with other federal agencies in local and state health departments, private medical providers, and hospitals in preparedness activities related to quarantine and ports of entry.
• Provide training and tabletop exercises for local, state, and federal partners about ways to protect their health, emergency response, communicable disease, and migrant health processing.
• Conduct public health research for tuberculosis, pandemic influenza, and nonpharmaceutical interventions.