He also issued an executive order yesterday in regards to quarantee on this, Cindy could you find this?
Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/04/20050401-6.html
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
April 1, 2005
Executive Order: Amendment to E.O. 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.
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Here you go JP.
Bush Orders Bird Flu Quarantine in U.S.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1376178/posts
Did a FR search on bird flu and it turned up these threads:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=any;o=score;s=bird%20flu