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quarantine, the separation and restriction of travel of humans or other animals that may have come into contact with an infectious disease. Individuals remain under quarantine until it is deemed certain that they are free of infection. In the vocabulary of disease control, the terms quarantine and isolation are used interchangeably. In the strictest sense, however, isolation is the separation of a sick individual from healthy individuals. The earliest recognition that diseases might be communicable (transmitted from one individual to another) led to extreme measures designed to isolate infected persons or communities. Fear of leprosy, for example, caused wide adoption ...(100 of 1205 words)

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