Executive Order
13375 of April 1, 2005
Amendment to
Executive Order 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:
``(c) Influenza caused by novel or
reemergent 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.
Executive
Order 13295 of April 4, 2003
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. 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.
George W. Bush
The White House,
April 4, 2003.
