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Barack Obama: “Severe acute respiratory syndromes, which are diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of…”

On the recordJuly 30, 2014
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.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Executive Order 13674—Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases

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