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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Manaugh and Twilley visit an impressively broad array of quarantine projects, many of which would be incomprehensible to the residents of 14th century Dubrovnik.

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...