Ebola So Contagious, Presidential Order Dictates Quarantines

Monday, October 6, 2014
By Paul Martin

by Kristin Tate and Lana Shadwick
BreitBart.com
6 Oct 2014

HOUSTON, Texas — Amid the Ebola case in Dallas, government officials have been quick to reassure citizens there is little to worry about. Public health officials claim that it is difficult to contract Ebola, as it supposedly only spreads through direct contact with body fluid. Despite such assertions, the virus has enough potential to cause a devastating outbreak that an executive order was passed in 2003 labeling Ebola a “quarantinable communicable disease.” This means that no court order is necessary to quarantine an individual who is not yet ill, but has been exposed to Ebola.

Ebola is one of the relatively few illnesses that are exempt from typical procedural requirements that come with quarantines. Quarantine or isolation associated with disease control is a restraint of constitutionally protected liberty. Like criminal arrest, or involuntary commitment into a mental health facility, legal safeguards must be taken but public health and welfare is also an issue.

President George W. Bush signed an Executive Order in 2003, adding Ebola to the list of quarantinable communicable diseases.

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