Quarantine

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Quarantine is compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often but not always disease. The word comes from the Italian (seventeenth century Venetian) quarantena, meaning forty-day period. Quarantine can be applied to humans, but also to animals of various kinds.

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• 1 In practice
• 2 History
  • 2.1 British quarantine rules after 1711
  • 2.2 United States
  • 2.3 International conventions
• 3 Legal
  • 3.1 Canada
  • 3.2 Hong Kong
  • 3.3 United Kingdom
  • 3.4 United States
• 4 Other uses
• 5 Notable quarantines
• 6 See also
  • 6.1 List of quarantine services in the world
• 7 References
• 8 External links