The large number of internally displaced people has dramatically increased the risk of communicable disease transmission.
That could lead to serious public health problems, including the spread of communicable diseases".
He is in critical condition, said Dr. Marcelle Layton, assistant commissioner of the department's office of communicable disease control.
"Hong Kong is an international airline hub," said Dr. David Heymann, the organization's executive director of communicable diseases.
The dairy, Whittier Farms, suspended operations and distribution, said Dr. Alfred DeMaria, the state director of communicable disease control.
Mr. Cornyn said that federal law required that illegal immigrants receive emergency room care, immunizations and treatment of communicable diseases.
Neighboring countries are threatened by the alarming spread of communicable diseases like drug-resistant tuberculosis and AIDS.
In "The H-Man" radiation sickness becomes a sort of communicable disease, spreading like a plague through the Tokyo sewers.
Quarantine is much modified in modern practice because of the better understanding of communicable disease.
Dr. Heymann, the agency's chief of communicable diseases, said he was not blaming the company involved, Baxter Healthcare of Deerfield, Ill.
"It is not just aerosolized, we believe," said Dr. David L. Heymann, executive director in charge of communicable diseases for the World Health Organization.
