Quarantine is a restriction on the movement of people and goods intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests. It is distinct from medical isolation, in which those confirmed to be infected with a communicable disease are isolated from the healthy population. Ethical and practical considerations need to be considered when applying quarantine to people. Practice differs from country to country.
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Quarantine is a restriction on the movement of people and goods intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests. It is distinct from medical isolation, in which those confirmed to be infected with a communicable disease are isolated from the healthy population. The concept of quarantine has been known since biblical times and is known to have been practised through history in various places. Notable quarantines in modern history include that of the village of Eyam in 1665 during the bubonic plague outbreak in England. East Samoa during the 1918 flu pandemic; the Diphtheria outbreak during the 1925 serum run to Nome, and the 1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak. Ethical and practical considerations need to be considered when applying quarantine to people. Practice differs from country to country. In some countries, quarantine is just one of many measures governed by legislation relating to the broader concept of biosecurity. The word quarantine comes from quarantena, meaning ‘forty days’, used in 14th–15th-century Venetian and designating the period that all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague epidemic. It followed the trentino, or thirty-day isolation period, first imposed in 1347 in the Republic of Ragusa, Dalmatia. Incidents of quarantine occurred throughout the Muslim world, with evidence of voluntary community quarantine in some of these reported incidents. The first documented involuntary community quarantine was established by the Ottoman quarantine reform in 1838.
The Islamic prophet Muhammad advised quarantine: ‘Those with contagious diseases should be kept away from those who are healthy.’ In 1448 Dubrovnik proved to be an effective formula for the handling of the plague outbreaks. In 1477 states that before entering city-state of Dubnik, newcomers had to spend 30 days in a restricted place waiting to see whether the symptoms of Black Death would develop. Between 13.48 and 1359, the Black. Death wiped out an estimated 30% of Europe’s population, and a significant percentage of Asia’s population. Such a significant disaster led governments to establish measures to establish containment to handle recurrent epidemics. The term ‘quarantine’ came to be used to refer to the 40-day waiting period to the birth of a child, thus giving the term to the term “qu quarantine’. It can also be used interchangeably with cordon sanitaire, and although the terms are related, cordon Sanitaire refers to the restriction of movement of. people into or out of a defined geographic area, such as a community, in order to prevent an infection from spreading. The word is also used as a verb. This is to the isolation of ships and people practised as a measure of disease prevention related to plague outbreak related to 1349 and 1348. It also refers to a state of enforced isolation, and as ‘a state of. enforced isolation’
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