It wasn't until the Black Death of the 14th century, however, that Venice established the first formal system of quarantine, requiring ships to lay at anchor for 40 days before landing ...

The name itself comes from 14th-century Venice, where political and public health policy required ships from possibly plague-ridden countries to remain isolated for 40 days, giving any incubating ...

Ivana Marinavić, the head of educational programs at The Lazarettos of Dubrovnik, the first buildings ever constructed for the sole purpose of quarantine, lists some of the consequences for breaking ...

It wasn't until the Black Death of the 14th century, however, that Venice established the first formal system of quarantine, requiring ships to lay at anchor for 40 days before landing ...

The OED says “quarantine” is borrowed partly from French, partly from Latin. But the Italians (maybe) gave us the more modern usage during the Black Death, the bubonic plague that ravaged Europe in ...

The word “quarantine” has Italian roots: in an effort to protect coastal cities from the Black Death ravaging 14th-Century Europe, ships arriving in Venice from infected ports were required to ...

The temperature gun, hand sanitizer, and surgical masks are thoroughly 21st century, of course, but the theory behind them, and our modern-day quarantine protocols, was established in Venice.

First Known Use: 14th Century Etymology: From the the Latin quadraginta and the Italian quaranta, both meaning “40.” From The Black Death, The Birth Of Quarantine. In 1793, yellow fever hit ...

The term was introduced in the 14th century during Europe’s bubonic plague, although separating the sick from the healthy and other practices we now associate with quarantining date back to ...

Hoffman Island was one of the many islands that 19th-century New York City officials used to quarantine residents infected with such dread diseases as yellow fever and cholera.Opened in 1856, the ...

Why did the U.S. government imposed a quarantine now for coronavirus, when no such mandate has been issued in over 50 years, ... a practice that was created in the 14th century in Venice, ...

DUBROVNIK, Croatia — The first state-imposed quarantine happened here, in present-day Dubrovnik, Croatia, an ancient walled city atop the cliffs of the Adriatic Sea. The first people to ever be ...