by sussurus2 » Tue Nov 08, 2005 2:52 pm
<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/executiveorder040403.htm">www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/e...040403.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Sigh.<br><br><br>EXECUTIVE ORDER 13295: REVISED LIST OF QUARANTINABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES<br>Download PDF version formatted for print (64 KB/1 page)<br>Office of the Press Secretary<br><br>For Immediate Release <br>April 4, 2003<br><br>EXECUTIVE ORDER<br><br>------<br><br>REVISED LIST OF QUARANTINABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES<br><br>By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264(b)), it is hereby ordered as follows:<br><br>Section 1. Based upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the "Secretary"), in consultation with the Surgeon General, and for the purpose of specifying certain communicable diseases for regulations providing for the apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases, the following communicable diseases are hereby specified pursuant to section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act:<br><br>(a) Cholera; Diphtheria; infectious Tuberculosis; Plague; Smallpox; Yellow Fever; and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (Lassa, Marburg, Ebola, Crimean-Congo, South American, and others not yet isolated or named).<br><br>[THIS NEXT SET IS WHAT WAS ADDED. SEC. TWO IS THE BIG PROBLEM.]<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>(b) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which is a disease associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, is transmitted from person to person predominantly by the aerosolized or droplet route, and, if spread in the population, would have severe public health consequences.<br><br>Sec. 2. The Secretary, in the Secretary's discretion, shall determine whether a particular condition constitutes a communicable disease of the type specified in section 1 of this order.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Sec. 3. The functions of the President under sections 362 and 364(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 265 and 267(a)) are assigned to the Secretary.<br><br>Sec. 4. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit enforceable at law or equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, entities, officers, employees or agents, or any other person.<br><br>Sec. 5. Executive Order 12452 of December 22, 1983, is hereby revoked.<br><br>GEORGE W. BUSH<br><br>THE WHITE HOUSE,<br><br>April 4, 2003.<br><br>______________________<br><br>Oh, and:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05278/582653.stm">www.post-gazette.com/pg/05278/582653.stm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Bush sees military quarantine for avian flu epidemic<br><br>Wednesday, October 05, 2005<br><br>By Jennifer Loven, The Associated Press<br><br>WASHINGTON -- President Bush, increasingly concerned about a possible avian flu pandemic, revealed yesterday that any part of the country where the virus breaks out could likely be quarantined and that he is considering using the military to enforce it.<br><br>"The best way to deal with a pandemic is to isolate it and keep it isolated in the region in which it begins," he said during a wide-ranging Rose Garden news conference.<br><br>The president was asked if his recent talk of giving the military the lead in responding to large natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and other catastrophes was in part the result of his concerns that state and local personnel aren't up to the task of a flu outbreak.<br><br>"Yes," he replied....[etc.]<br><br>SOUND FAMILIAR?<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/04/04/sars.bush/">www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/04/04/sars.bush/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br> <p></p><i></i>