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- A rigid separation between healthy and infected persons was initially accomplished through the use of makeshift camps. Quarantine was first introduced in 1377 in Dubrovnik on Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast, and the first permanent plague hospital, known as lazarettos, was opened by the Republic of Venice in 1423.
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Jan 16, 2021 · Quarantine as a response to epidemics first emerged during the many plague outbreaks in Europe during the 14 th century and were relied upon with increasing success thereafter to prevent disease from overtaking society.
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Nov 1, 2002 · Beginning in middle of the 14th century, repeated waves of plague swept across Europe. After arriving in southern Europe in 1347, plague spread rapidly, reaching England, Germany, and Russia by 1350 [2]. During this time, it is estimated that one-third of Europe's population died.
- Paul S Sehdev
- 2002
The concept of (modern) preventive quarantine is strictly related to plague and dates back to 1377, when the Rector of the seaport of Ragusa, today called Dubrovnik (Croatia), officially issued the so-called ‘trentina’ (an Italian word derived from ‘trenta’, that is, the number 30), a 30-day isolation period.
- Gian Franco Gensini, Magdi H. Yacoub, Magdi H. Yacoub, Andrea A. Conti
- 2004
- Historical Roots
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- Other Veterinary, Agricultural, and Forestry-Related Quarantines
- Animal Use of “Quarantine”
Quarantine is an ancient concept. Many Bible passages cite a 7-day isolation for leprosy (Hansen's disease), for example. But the formalized use of quarantine in more modern times traces back to the 1300s in Mediterranean port cities. “Since the fourteenth century, quarantine has been the cornerstone of a coordinated disease-control strategy,” writ...
Quarantine, however, has had a dark side throughout history, Tognotti explains, with the potential to stigmatize individuals, families, or whole communities. Examples include stigmatization of the Jewish population of Venice during the bubonic plague, of Mexicans during swine flu, and of Chinese during SARS and COVID-19. “Over the centuries, from t...
Quarantine reduces not only human-to-human disease transmission but also human-to-animal pathogen transmission, explains Kirsten Gilardi, executive director and chief veterinary officer at Gorilla Doctors, an organization that helps protect endangered mountain gorillas in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park. The world's mountain gorillas—about 1063 an...
In the 1800s and earlier, rabid stray dogs were not uncommon in Britain. But a control program eradicated rabies from the island nation by 1903. From 1897 to 2012, a strict universal quarantine was in place in the United Kingdom to prevent the reimportation of rabies, the quarantine length set to 6 months as the internationally recognized incubatio...
Humans are not unique in implementing quarantine as an effective infectious disease mitigation measure. In March 2021, a team of scientists led by Sebastian Stockmaier published a review in Science of social distancing in nature. Animals, they document, exhibit a continuum of behaviors similar to quarantine, from passive self-isolation to enforced ...
- Lesley Evans Ogden
- 2021
Quarantine was first introduced in 1377 in Dubrovnik on Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast, and the first permanent plague hospital, known as lazarettos, was opened by the Republic of Venice in 1423. In 1467, Genoa adopted the Venetian system, and in 1476 in Marseille, France, a hospital for
Feb 3, 2020 · The plague of the 14th century gave rise to the modern concept of quarantine. The Black Death first appeared in Europe in 1347.
May 11, 2020 · In the mid-14th century, Venice was struck by the bubonic plague, part of an outbreak known as the Black Death that may have killed up to 25 million people, or one-third of the population, in...
