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==Etymology==
partly modification of French quarantaine, from Old French, from quarante forty, from [[Latin]] quadraginta, from quadra- (akin to quattuor four) + -ginta (akin to viginti twenty); partly modification of Italian quarantena quarantine of a ship, from quaranta forty, from Latin quadraginta
*Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Century 1609]
==Definitions==
*1 : a period of 40 days
*2 a : a term during which a ship arriving in port and suspected of carrying contagious [[disease]] is held in [[isolation]] from the shore
:b : a regulation placing a ship in quarantine
:c : a place where a ship is detained during quarantine
*3 a : a restraint upon the [[activities]] or [[communication]] of [[persons]] or the transport of goods [[designed]] to prevent the spread of [[disease]] or pests
:b : a place in which those under quarantine are kept
*4 : a [[state]] of enforced [[isolation]]
==Description==
The quarantining of people often raises questions of civil rights, especially in cases of long confinement or segregation from [[society]], such as that of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon Mary Mallon] (aka Typhoid Mary), a typhoid fever carrier who spent the last 24 years of her life under '''quarantine'''.
Quarantine periods can be very short, such as in the case of a suspected [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrax anthrax] attack, in which [[persons]] are allowed to leave as soon as they shed their [[potentially]] contaminated garments and undergo a decontamination shower. For example, an article entitled "Daily News workers quarantined" describes a brief quarantine that lasted until people could be showered in a decontamination tent.
The February/March 2003 issue of HazMat Magazine suggests that people be "locked in a room until proper decon could be performed", in the event of "suspect anthrax".
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard-Times Standard-Times] senior correspondent Steve Urbon (February 14, 2003) describes such temporary quarantine [[powers]]:
<blockquote>Civil rights activists in some cases have objected to people being rounded up, stripped and showered against their will. But Capt. Chmiel said local health authorities have "certain powers to quarantine people."</blockquote>
The [[purpose]] of such quarantine-for-decontamination is to prevent the spread of contamination, and to contain the contamination such that others are not put at [[risk]] from a [[person]] fleeing a scene where contamination is suspect.
The first astronauts to visit the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon Moon] were quarantined upon their return at the specially built [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Receiving_Laboratory Lunar Receiving Laboratory].
New [[developments]] for quarantine include new [[concepts]] in quarantine vehicles such as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulance_bus Ambulance bus], mobile hospitals, and lockdown/invacuation (inverse evacuation) procedures, as well as docking stations for an ambulance bus to dock to a facility that's under lockdown.
[[Category: Health]]
==Etymology==
partly modification of French quarantaine, from Old French, from quarante forty, from [[Latin]] quadraginta, from quadra- (akin to quattuor four) + -ginta (akin to viginti twenty); partly modification of Italian quarantena quarantine of a ship, from quaranta forty, from Latin quadraginta
*Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Century 1609]
==Definitions==
*1 : a period of 40 days
*2 a : a term during which a ship arriving in port and suspected of carrying contagious [[disease]] is held in [[isolation]] from the shore
:b : a regulation placing a ship in quarantine
:c : a place where a ship is detained during quarantine
*3 a : a restraint upon the [[activities]] or [[communication]] of [[persons]] or the transport of goods [[designed]] to prevent the spread of [[disease]] or pests
:b : a place in which those under quarantine are kept
*4 : a [[state]] of enforced [[isolation]]
==Description==
The quarantining of people often raises questions of civil rights, especially in cases of long confinement or segregation from [[society]], such as that of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon Mary Mallon] (aka Typhoid Mary), a typhoid fever carrier who spent the last 24 years of her life under '''quarantine'''.
Quarantine periods can be very short, such as in the case of a suspected [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrax anthrax] attack, in which [[persons]] are allowed to leave as soon as they shed their [[potentially]] contaminated garments and undergo a decontamination shower. For example, an article entitled "Daily News workers quarantined" describes a brief quarantine that lasted until people could be showered in a decontamination tent.
The February/March 2003 issue of HazMat Magazine suggests that people be "locked in a room until proper decon could be performed", in the event of "suspect anthrax".
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard-Times Standard-Times] senior correspondent Steve Urbon (February 14, 2003) describes such temporary quarantine [[powers]]:
<blockquote>Civil rights activists in some cases have objected to people being rounded up, stripped and showered against their will. But Capt. Chmiel said local health authorities have "certain powers to quarantine people."</blockquote>
The [[purpose]] of such quarantine-for-decontamination is to prevent the spread of contamination, and to contain the contamination such that others are not put at [[risk]] from a [[person]] fleeing a scene where contamination is suspect.
The first astronauts to visit the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon Moon] were quarantined upon their return at the specially built [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Receiving_Laboratory Lunar Receiving Laboratory].
New [[developments]] for quarantine include new [[concepts]] in quarantine vehicles such as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulance_bus Ambulance bus], mobile hospitals, and lockdown/invacuation (inverse evacuation) procedures, as well as docking stations for an ambulance bus to dock to a facility that's under lockdown.
[[Category: Health]]
