[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 13 (Monday, April 4, 2005)]
[Pages 547-548]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13375--Amendment to Executive Order 13295 Relating to 
Certain Influenza Viruses and Quarantinable Communicable Diseases

April 1, 2005

    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.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:49 a.m., April 4, 
2005]

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Note: This Executive order will be published in the Federal Register on 
April 5.