BUSH, FEDS CAN QUARANTINE ANYONE WITH 'FLU-LIKE' DISEASES

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Bush, Feds Can Quarantine

Anyone With 'Flu-Like' Diseases

 

3-23-6

 

For Immediate Release

Office of the Press Secretary

April 1, 2005

 

Executive Order: Amendment to E.O. 13295

Relating to Certain Influenza Viruses and 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, in consultation with the Surgeon General, and for

the purpose set forth in section 1 of Executive Order 13295 of April

4, 2003, section 1 of such order is amended by adding at the end

thereof the following new subsection:

 

" © Influenza caused by novel or re-emergent influenza viruses that

are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic. " .

 

Sec. 2. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right

or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in

equity by any party against the United States, its departments,

agencies, entities, officers, employees or agents, or any other

person.

 

GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

 

April 1, 2005.

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