TUBERCULOSIS AND QUARANTINE

Through the quarantine looking glass: drug-resistant tuberculosis and public health governance, law, and ethics.

The incident in May-June 2007 involving a U.S. citizen traveling internationally while infected with drug-resistant tuberculosis involved the U.S. federal government's application of its quarantine and isolation powers. The incident and the isolation order raised numerous important issues for public health governance, law, and ethics. This article explores many of these issues by examining how ...

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...

Tuberculosis quarantine: a review of legal issues in Ohio and other states.

Etymologia: Quarantine

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...