[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 14 (Monday, April 7, 2003)]
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Executive Order 13295--Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable 
Diseases

April 4, 2003

    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.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., April 8, 
2003]

Note: This Executive order will be published in the Federal Register on 
April 9.