The practice of quarantine—the separation of the diseased from the healthy—has been around a long time. As early as the writing of the Old Testament, for instance, rules existed for isolating ...

Upon arrival, he would have to complete three weeks of quarantine. Even so, he could never foresee the ordeal he was going to suffer. Xue, due to a Kafkaesque streak of bad luck and confrontations ...

this period in history also gave us some words and methods that may now sound familiar. For example, just as we have experienced, Venetians could spend weeks in quarantine. It was all part of a ...

It is believed the prolonged quarantine caused cholera to spread to healthy passengers. Official records show that 230,000 people were quarantined on 114 ships. More than 1,000 were infected with ...