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NM DOH All Hazard Incident Management Glossary
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Quarantine – precautionary physical separation of persons who have or may have been exposed to a threatening communicable disease or a potentially threatening communicable disease and who do not show signs or symptoms of a threatening communicable disease, from non-quarantined persons, to protect against the transmission of the disease to non-quarantined persons.
* Indicates a term from the National Inter-Agency Incident Management System (NIIMS)
