CHOLERA AND QUARANTINE.

Cholera, quarantine and the English preventive system, 1850-1895.

Cholera is popularly remembered as the disease which made the nineteenth century its own, appearing from obscurity to devastate Europe repeatedly in the years between 1830 and the 1920s. Six pandemics spread fear and alarm, terrible illness and horrible death, across the Continent before 1900,1 distorting the true demographic significance of the disease and deflecting both contemporary and hist...

Ebola and quarantine.

The governors of a number of states, including New York and New Jersey, recently imposed 21-day quarantines on health care workers returning to the United States from regions of the world where they may have cared for patients with Ebola virus disease. We understand their motivation for this policy — to protect the citizens of their states from contracting this often-fatal illness. This approac...

Etymologia: Quarantine

Technical considerations of cholera vaccines and some results of cholera - El-Tor mass immunization

Quarantine Net: design and application

Lately the world has seen an alarming increase in both the amount of new computer viruses and worms, as well as the speed at which they spread. Dealing with such outbreaks puts a heavy burden on end-users as well as operators of (enterprise) networks. In this paper we present an overview of, as well as operational experiences with Quarantine Net (QNET), a system that has been developed at the U...