Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases
Signed April 4, 2003·George W. Bush·68 FR 17255
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Specifies the communicable diseases for which federal regulations may authorize the apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent their spread, under the Public Health Service Act. The list includes cholera, diphtheria, infectious tuberculosis, plague, smallpox, yellow fever, viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola and Marburg, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Surgeon General, discretion to determine whether a given condition qualifies as one of these communicable diseases. Assigns to the Secretary certain presidential functions under sections 362 and 364(a) of the Public Health Service Act, relating to quarantine regulations and inspection of arriving persons. States that the order creates no enforceable legal rights against the United States or its officials. Revokes Executive Order 12452 of December 22, 1983.
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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
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Disposition
Revokes: EO 12452, December 22, 1983 Amended by: EO 13375, April 1, 2005; EO 14047, September 17, 2021
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The order, in full
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. 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.
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THE WHITE HOUSE,
April 4, 2003.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed April 4, 2003. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.