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If faced with the threat of SARS, avian flu or another epidemic, most Americans would consider quarantine a good idea — but they wouldn’t approve of strong enforcement. That is one American attitude toward quarantine described by Harvard public health researchers who studied U.S. attitudes about quarantine.

Americans for quarantine not forced compliance