CNN Article: Bush order allows SARS quarantine
CNN Article: Bush order allows SARS quarantine
Illness ‘could have severe public health consequences’
Friday, April 4, 2003 Posted: 6:49 PM EST (2349 GMT)
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush issued an executive order Friday adding Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome to the list of communicable diseases for which a person can be quarantined.
The order reads that SARS, a disease first recognized late last year in China, is “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.”
SARS — characterized by high fever and breathing difficulties — has infected more than 2,270 people, killing 79, according to the World Health Organization’s Web site. It has spread to 16 countries, including the United States. No U.S. deaths have been reported.