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Executive Order -- Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases | The White House
REVISED LIST OF 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 264(b) of title 42, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Amendment to Executive Order 13295. Based upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Acting Surgeon General, and for the purposes set forth in section 1 of Executive Order 13295 of April 4, 2003, as amended by Executive Order 13375 of April 1, 2005, section 1 of Executive Order 13295 shall be further amended by replacing subsection (b) with the following:
"(b) Severe acute respiratory syndromes, which are diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled. This subsection does not apply to influenza."
Sec. 2. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) 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, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
BARACK OBAMA
They have to update it every so often...
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Look at the wording and think about this....
Considering how the IRS has abused it's power, think of how partisans could abuse this.
Executive Order -- Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases | The White House
REVISED LIST OF 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 264(b) of title 42, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Amendment to Executive Order 13295. Based upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Acting Surgeon General, and for the purposes set forth in section 1 of Executive Order 13295 of April 4, 2003, as amended by Executive Order 13375 of April 1, 2005, section 1 of Executive Order 13295 shall be further amended by replacing subsection (b) with the following:
"(b) Severe acute respiratory syndromes, which are diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled. This subsection does not apply to influenza."
Sec. 2. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) 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, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
BARACK OBAMA
Vaccines introduced in the early 2000s target up to 23 of the deadliest forms of the bacterium that causes pneumonia, Streptococcus pneumoniae. The new vaccine, which is undergoing animal testing, may lower the number of deaths even further by targeting dozens of additional strains of S. pneumoniae. It may also anticipate future versions of the bacteria responsible for pneumococcal disease, which includes sepsis and meningitis. The vaccine provoked an immune response to 72 forms of S. pneumoniae, including the 23 already included in existing pneumonia vaccines. "We've made tremendous progress fighting the spread of pneumonia, especially among children. But if we're ever going to rid ourselves of the disease, we need to create smarter and more cost-effective vaccines," says the study's co-author Blaine Pfeifer, Ph.D., associate professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Each strain of S. pneumoniae contains unique polysaccharides, say researchers. Vaccines such as Prevnar 13 and Synflorix connect these sugars, sharing an electron, to a protein called CRM197. The process, known as a covalent bond, creates a potent vaccine that prompts the body to find and destroy bacteria before they colonize the body.
While effective, creating covalent bonds for each strain of S. pneumoniae is time-consuming and expensive. In addition, this type of immunization, known as a conjugate vaccine, prompts the body to eliminate each of the targeted bacteria types, regardless of whether the bacteria are idle or are attacking the body. Another vaccine, Pneumovax 23, contains sugars of 23 of the most common types of S. pneumoniae. However, the immune response it provokes is not as strong as Prevnar because the sugars are not covalently linked. "Traditional vaccines completely remove bacteria from the body. But we now know that bacteria — and in a larger sense, the microbiome — are beneficial to maintaining good health," says Charles H. Jones, the study's other co-lead author. "That's really exciting is that we now have the ability — with the vaccine we're developing — to watch over bacteria and attack it only if it breaks away from the colony to cause an illness. That's important because if we leave the harmless bacteria in place, it prevents other harmful bacteria from filling that space."
The new vaccine is engineered in a way that makes it easy to add sugars (like Pneumovax) for a broad immune response to fight currently undiscovered strains of bacteria. According to tests performed on mice and rabbits, the new vaccine stimulated an immune response to 72 of the more than 90 known strains of S. pneumoniae. In many cases, it outperformed Prevnar and Pneumovax. According to Pfeifer, the vaccine has the potential to provide universal coverage against bacteria that cause pneumonia, meningitis, sepsis and other types of pneumococcal disease. The research was published in the journal Science Advances.
New vaccines aren't the only discovery that may help reduce deaths from pneumonia. One of the leading causes of death among senior citizens living in long-term health facilities is acute respiratory illness (ARI), which includes pneumonia and bronchitis. Research published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found that patients who took higher doses of vitamin D (3,300-4,300 IU daily) experienced a 40 percent reduction in acute respiratory illness.
New Vaccine May End Pneumonia
