[piasa]

From THE ACE OF SPADES blog
October 02, 2014
Flashback: In August 2010, President Midas Touch Scrapped Tougher Bush-Era Quarantine Rules Designed to Halt Spread of Epidemics
Via Kerry Picket at Breitbart.http://ace.mu.nu/archives/352214.php
...Flash forward to April 2010, after Obama became president, and reviewed the 2005 rules. He “quietly” dumped them.[http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-04-01-quarantine_N.htm]
The Obama administration has quietly scrapped plans to enact sweeping new federal quarantine regulations that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention touted four years ago as critical to protecting Americans from dangerous diseases spread by travelers.
The regulations, proposed in 2005 during the Bush administration amid fears of avian flu, would have given the federal government additional powers to detain sick airline passengers and those exposed to certain diseases. They also would have expanded requirements for airlines to report ill passengers to the CDC and mandated that airlines collect and maintain contact information for fliers in case they later needed to be traced as part of an investigation into an outbreak.
Airline and civil liberties groups, which had opposed the rules, praised their withdrawal....

[thecodont]

Thanks for the link.