Quarantine

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

reduction of human social interaction in an effort to prevent the spread of infectious disease

Chinese tradition to give post-partum rest to the mother

states of emergency and regimes of exception decreed by COVID-19

type of quarantine

thumb | right A preventorium was an institution or building for patients infected with tuberculosis who did not yet have an active form of the disease. Popular in the early 20th century, preventoria were designed to isolate these patients from uninfected individuals as well as patients who showed outward symptoms. Philanthropist Nathan Straus opened the first preventorium (Tuberculosis Preventorium for Children) on Preventorium Road in Lakewood, New Jersey in 1909.

plant import requirement certification

disease- and pest-free plant technique