Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases

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.