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Unhealthy Tyranny.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)
Civil Liberties: While pundits sputter about military tribunals and the rights of detainees, no one seems to care about a more sweeping power grab.
As Betsy McCaughey outlined last week (Perspective, Nov. 29), states are considering emergency legislation giving public health officials broad new powers. Those powers should scare the immune system out of any American.
The federal Centers for Disease Control has prepared model legislation that, if adopted, would let states pre-empt existing privacy, property rights and licensing laws.
It would also give states the power to take over (with "just compensation") all manner of private property, from nursing homes and hospitals to pharmaceutical factories and telecommunications centers.
It gets worse, as the nonprofit Institute for Health Freedom points out. The bill would:
Force individuals suspected of having an ...
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Established Infectious Disease Control...
- General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony September 1, 2003 700+ words
...asked to determine 1) infectious disease control measures practiced within...emphasized that no new infectious disease control measures were introduced...are well established infectious disease control measures that proved...
- CDC Modernizes Travel Alert System to guard against infectious disease.(EPN...
- Magazine article from: Emergency Preparedness News June 1, 2004 700+ words
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has scrapped its previous methods for...of a new system to help travelers protect themselves from infectious disease outbreaks and other dangers. "As we learned during last...
- U. S. airport quarantine stations triple.(Infectious disease)(Centers for...
- Magazine article from: Medical Laboratory Observer October 1, 2005 700+ words
U. S. airport quarantine stations triple. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced plans to triple the number of quarantine stations--from eight to 25--in U.S. airports...
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...office of Princeton, N.J.-based A/E CUH2A Inc. is architect for the Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratory at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. St. Louis-based McCarthy is the general contractor...
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC Fights Infectious Disease...
- Newspaper article from: Biotech Week November 12, 2008 700+ words
...preparedness, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses...infectious diseases." When an infectious disease outbreak strikes, it is imperative...About U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The Centers for...
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Fights Infectious Disease...
- Press release article from: Business Wire October 27, 2008 700+ words
...preparedness, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses...infectious diseases." When an infectious disease outbreak strikes, it is imperative...About U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The Centers for...
- Infectious Disease Expert to Lead Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga.
- Newspaper article from: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) July 3, 2002 700+ words
...epidemic 20 years ago and helped lead the response to last fall's anthrax attacks, will be named director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today. Bush administration officials confirmed Tuesday that Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson...
- Emerging trends in international law concerning global infectious disease...
- Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases Fidler, David P. March 1, 2003 700+ words
...law concerning global infectious disease control. The role of international...governance responses to infectious disease control is conceptualized; the...law in the context of infectious disease control today are analyzed...
