Bush Signs Executive Order Allowing for Quarantine

This is real folks. Keep your eye on this one.

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.