“Quarantine” used to refer to the 40 days a ship suspected of carrying a contagious disease was held in offshore isolation. Now it’s an aggresive tool to stop the spread of disease in ...

The History and Future of Quarantine By Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley Illustrated. 396 pages. MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $28. A version of this article appears in print on ...

The word quarantine comes from the Italian derived from quaranta or 40. In the context of disease, it goes back to the Middle Ages. It refers to the period of 40 days that a ship from a country ...

I picked up Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, by journalists Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, with a degree of dread. Who wants to remain, even intellectually, in that ...

Venice was the first place to institute a preventive quarantine program. It was during the Black Death of the 14th century, a pandemic so severe it killed at least a third of Europe's population.

For 50 years the CDC has operated a quarantine program to protect people in the United States from imported infectious disease, according to STAT.

Our apprehension derived from the nature of quarantine, which, in practical terms, is different from isolation. In their lively and engaging book, “Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of ...

When governments in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand and elsewhere instituted mandatory hotel quarantines for travelers arriving in their countries as a way of monitoring the ...

Dispatches From Quarantine: How Young People Are Documenting History Enticed by what young adults had to share about the pandemic, historian Alexandra Zapruder set out to document history through ...

The dark and complex history of quarantine goes back to the Middle Ages By Alicia Lee, CNN 5 minute read Published 4:28 AM EST, Wed March 4, 2020 Link Copied! During the ...