Health and social policy

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

President: George W. Bush

Amended the federal list of quarantinable diseases to address influenza caused by novel or reemerging viruses with pandemic potential.

Status: In effect. Is Executive Order 13375 still in effect? Yes. Executive Order 13375 remains in effect. See Federal Register record.

What does Executive Order 13375 do?

CDC guidance describes the resulting list as amended by EO 13375 and later EO 13674, including pandemic-potential influenza.

Administration position: The order modified a disease designation; detention or examination still requires applicable statutory authority, regulations and individual facts.
SignedApril 1, 2005
Original directionAmended the federal list of quarantinable diseases to address influenza caused by novel or reemerging viruses with pandemic potential.
Later evidenceCDC guidance describes the resulting list as amended by EO 13375 and later EO 13674, including pandemic-potential influenza.
Review dateSeptember 26, 2026

Before and after

Before the order

EO 13295 listed communicable diseases subject to federal quarantine powers under public-health statute.

After the order

CDC guidance describes the resulting list as amended by EO 13375 and later EO 13674, including pandemic-potential influenza.

The order modified a disease designation; detention or examination still requires applicable statutory authority, regulations and individual facts.

Who had to do what

Officials applying the quarantinable-disease list in Executive Order 13295 must use its added category covering novel or reemergent influenza viruses that cause or could cause a pandemic. Signed Federal Register text

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Later actionCDC guidance describes the resulting list as amended by EO 13375 and later EO 13674, including pandemic-potential influenza.2024

What happened next

EO 13375 signed.