Definition of "quarantinable" []

• Subject to quarantine; under quarantine. (adjective)

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• "Last night, Health Minister Nicola Roxon announced new measures; swine flu is to be listed as a quarantinable disease which means the Chief Medical Officer can, if necessary, detain people, and quarantine them, in their own home."
• "And we have added influenza viruses with pandemic potential to the list of quarantinable diseases."
• "Screw having the virus nail a small and fundamentally quarantinable town in Northern California."