- For Immediate Release
- Office of the Press Secretary
- April 1, 2005
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- Executive Order: Amendment to E.O. 13295
- Relating to Certain Influenza Viruses
and Quarantinable Communicable Diseases
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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 as follows:
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- 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:
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- "(c) Influenza caused by novel or
re-emergent influenza viruses that are causing, or have the potential
to cause, a pandemic.".
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- 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.
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- GEORGE W. BUSH
- THE WHITE HOUSE,
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- April 1, 2005.
- http://www.whitehouse.gov
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