Quarantine travelogue

Multilevel Visualization of Travelogue Trajectory Data

User-generated travelogues can generate much geographic data, containing abundant semantic and geographic information that reflects people’s movement patterns. The tourist movement patterns in travelogues can help others when planning trips, or understanding how people travel within certain regions. The trajectory data in travelogues might include tourist attractions, restaurants and other loca...

Etymologia: Quarantine

Hormozgan in the Nearchhos travelogue

Hormozgan province is located south of Iran, on the shore of Persian Gulf and Makran Sea. The shores of Persian Gulf have been a part of Hormozgan province since ancient times. Historical remains and archaeological findings of the province date back to 10000 year B.C.. Moreover, historical and geographical writings from 5th century B.C. also mention the shores of Persian Gulf. One of the o...

Quarantine Stressing Voluntary Compliance

A 1-day table-top exercise in San Diego, California, in December 2004 emphasized voluntary compliance with home quarantine to control an emerging infectious disease outbreak. The exercise heightened local civilian-military collaboration in public health emergency management. Addressing concerns about lost income by residents in quarantine was particularly challenging.

Predicting Quarantine Failure Rates

Preemptive quarantine through contact-tracing effectively controls emerging infectious diseases. Occasionally this quarantine fails, however, and infected persons are released. The probability of quarantine failure is typically estimated from disease-specific data. Here a simple, exact estimate of the failure rate is derived that does not depend on disease-specific parameters. This estimate is ...