quarantine

Also known as Kontumaz, Contumaz

alt=Two sealed wards of East Birmingham Hospital, with signs informing visitors of the quarantine |thumb|A quarantine was imposed on parts of Heartlands Hospital|East Birmingham Hospital after a 1978 smallpox outbreak. A quarantine is a restriction on the movement of people, animals, and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests. It is often used in connection to disease and illness, preventing the movement of those who may have been exposed to a communicable disease, yet do not have a confirmed medical diagnosis. It is distinct from medical isolation, in which those c

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A quarantine is a restriction on the movement of people, animals, and goods designed to prevent the spread of disease or pests, often applied to those who may have been exposed to a communicable disease even without a confirmed diagnosis. It matters because it serves as a public health measure to contain outbreaks and protect communities from infectious disease transmission.

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Key facts

UK legislation.short_title: Quarantine Act 1710
UK legislation.type: Act
UK legislation.parliament: Parliament of Great Britain
UK legislation.long_title: An Act to oblige Ships, coming from Places infected, more effectually to perform their Quarentine.
UK legislation.year: 1710
UK legislation.citation: 9 Ann. c. 2
UK legislation.territorial_extent: Great Britain
UK legislation.royal_assent: 23 December 1710
UK legislation.commencement: 25 December 1710
UK legislation.amendments: Quarantine Act 1720
UK legislation.repeal_date: 15 July 1867
UK legislation.repealing_legislation: Statute Law Revision Act 1867
UK legislation.status: Repealed
UK legislation.original_text: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000033905853&view=1up&seq=407
UK legislation.collapsed: yes

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Research

26,740 papers

Psychological impact of quarantine on healthcare workers.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2020Gómez-Durán EL, Martin-Fumadó C, Forero CGDOI: 10.1136/oemed-2020-106587
Self-Quarantine System and Personal Information Privacy in South Korea.ReviewYonsei medical journal · 2022Lee SG, Kim EDOI: 10.3349/ymj.2022.63.9.806
Quarantine Facility for Patients with COVID-19 with Mild Symptoms in Korea: Experience from Eighteen Residential Treatment Centers.ReviewJournal of Korean medical science · 2020Yang Y, Kim H, Hwang JDOI: 10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e429
Self-Quarantine Noncompliance During the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Korea.Disaster medicine and public health preparedness · 2022Ryu S, Hwang Y, Yoon H et al.DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2020.374
Optimal COVID-19 quarantine and testing strategies.Nature communications · 2021Wells CR, Townsend JP, Pandey A et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20742-8
Quarantine Elimination for K-12 Students With Mask-on-Mask Exposure to SARS-CoV-2.Pediatrics · 2022Boutzoukas AE, Zimmerman KO, Benjamin DK et al.DOI: 10.1542/peds.2021-054268L
Social consequences of mass quarantine during epidemics: a systematic review with implications for the COVID-19 response.Journal of travel medicine · 2020Chu IY, Alam P, Larson HJ et al.DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taaa192
Nonhuman primate quarantine: its evolution and practice.ReviewILAR journal · 2008Roberts JA, Andrews KDOI: 10.1093/ilar.49.2.145

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Contents

Etymology and terminology
History
Medieval
Modern history
International conventions 1852–1927
Signals and flags
Ethical and practical considerations
The United Nations and the Siracusa Principles
Psychological impact
Short-term quarantines, e.g. for decontamination
Standard quarantine practices in different countries
Australia
Canada
Hong Kong
United Kingdom
British maritime quarantine rules 1711–1896
United States
Federal rules
US quarantine facilities
US quarantine of imported goods
History of quarantine laws in the US
List of quarantine services in the world
Notable quarantines
Eyam village, 1665 (plague)
Convict ship ''Surry'', Sydney Harbour, 1814 (typhoid)
'Typhoid Mary' (US), 1907–1910 and 1915–1938
East Samoa, 1918 (flu pandemic)
Gruinard Island, 1942–1990 (anthrax)
Apollo series space explorers, 1969–1971
Yugoslavia, 1972 (smallpox)
Case of Kaci Hickox' return to US, 2014 (Ebola)
COVID-19 pandemic, 2020–2023
Hubei
Italy
Rest of Europe
Rest of the world
Self-quarantine
Other uses
See also
Notes
References
Sources
Further reading
External links

The concept of quarantine is known to have been practised through history in various places. Notable quarantines in modern history include 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, the 1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak, the SARS pandemic, the Ebola pandemic and extensive quarantines applied throughout the world during the COVID-19 pandemic since 2020.