[P-Marlowe]

It's the FLU!

Get over it.

[ladysusan]

This is a very smart move. Thanks for posting this. I do hope they are at least tracking others who may have been exposed....

[Chuckster]

.....ACLU screaming bloody murder

[xrp]

Time to open the REX-84 camps?

[JimRed]

Had Jimmy Carter done that when AIDS and its means of transmission was first identified it might just be a footnote by now...

[newguy357]

Everyone does realize that the death rate of SARS is only about 3% right?

But if you really need something to get worked up about, go ahead....

[buffyt]

Bush Order Allows Quarantine of Pneumonia Cases

[[[[IF we had been able to do this to AIDs cases from the start of the disease, it would have been wiped out by now!!!!!!!!!!!]]]]

Reuters
Friday, April 4, 2003; 4:26 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush issued an executive order on Friday allowing the forced quarantine of patients with a mysterious new illness that has killed 80 people, as well as patients with other diseases such as Ebola.

The order allows the Health and Human Services secretary to decide when such a quarantine is needed.

It calls for the "apprehension, detention or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission or spread of suspected communicable diseases."

It names Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which has affected a suspected 115 people in the United States and 2,400 worldwide, killing around 80.

The order also names cholera, diphtheria, infectious tuberculosis, plague, smallpox, yellow fever and viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola, Lassa and Marburg.

[SSN558]

Oh Great. I better dose up on allergy pills. One sneeze in the airport and they send you to a lepper colony.

[Beck_isright]

Not good.