9 FAM 40.11 N9 INA 212(A)(1)(A)(I) COMMUNICABLE DISEASES OF PUBLIC HEALTH SIGNIFICANCE
9 FAM 40.11 N9.1 Centers for Disease Control (CDC’s) Technical Instructions List of Communicable Diseases of Public Health Significance
(CT:VISA-1452; 07-19-2010)
INA 212(a)(1)(A)(i) (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(1)(A)(i)) refers to an inadmissible disease as “communicable disease of public health significance.” The CDC's Technical Instructions lists these diseases which are also defined at 42 CFR 34.2(b). The following diseases are those that the CDC currently defines as “communicable diseases of public health significance.” Note that as of January 4, 2010, HIV is no longer included in this list.
(1) Chancroid;
(2) Communicable diseases as listed under Section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act. The revised list of quarantinable communicable diseases is available at the CDC, Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Service Web site;
(3) Communicable diseases that may pose a public health emergency of international concern if it meets one or more of the listed factors in 42 CFR 34.3(d);
(4) Gonorrhea;
(5) Granuloma inguinale;
(6) Hansen’s disease (Leprosy) infectious;
(7) Lymphogranuloma venereum;
(8) Syphilis, infectious stage; and
(9) Tuberculosis, active.