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Quarantine?

A quarantine, a practice first recorded in the Book of Leviticus, in the Old Testament, is invoked because of probable exposure to an illness. People are removed from the general public for a period of time—voluntarily or by legal order—to see if the disease develops. The word quarantine dates to the Black Death’s spread along the Mediterranean in the fourteenth century, when governments imposed isolation for forty days—or quaranta in Italian. The Black Death killed some twenty-five million people, about a third of the European population at the time.

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