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EXECUTIVE
ORDER 13295: REVISED LIST OF QUARANTINABLE
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
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Office of the
Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
April 4, 2003
EXECUTIVE ORDER
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REVISED LIST OF QUARANTINABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
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:
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:
(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).
(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.
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.
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.
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.
Sec. 5. Executive Order 12452 of December 22, 1983, is hereby revoked.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
April 4, 2003.
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