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...

Upon the introduction of mandatory nucleic acid amplification technology (NAT) testing in Germany for HCV, quarantining of fresh frozen plasma (FFP) was reduced in 2002 from 6 to 4 months. In 2004 HIV-1 NAT and in 2005 anti-HBc testing were introduced to further reduce the residual transmission risks for transfusion relevant viruses. After testing more than 40 million donations by HCV NAT it be...

and symptoms of hospital workers with exposure to Ebola, no additional measures are really either necessary or useful. Not only is a policy of mandatory quarantine impractical, it also serves as a disincentive for the very healthcare workers who are needed to care for these sick patients in a manner that will improve their chances of survival while containing the epidemic. In conclusion, mandat...

International forest quarantine activitie

following the appearance of a quarantine pest, tomato leaf miner, tuta absoluta (povolny), in europe, monitoring of this species in iran was started by the cooperation of the plant protection organization of iran and the iranian research institute of plant protection. according to the surveys, the first emergence of this pest was detected in october 2010 in azerbaijan-e-gharbi province.

We develop a compartmental mathematical model to address the role of hospitals in severe acute respiratory syndrome ( SARS ) transmission dynamics, which partially explains the heterogeneity of the epidemic. Comparison of the effects of two major policies, strict hospital infection control procedures and community-wide quarantine measures, implemented in Toronto two weeks into the initial outbr...

On March 12, 2004, a college student infectious with measles returned to Iowa from India by a commercial airliner; the case was subsequently linked to two other measles cases. This report updates information about this outbreak and provides details regarding vaccination, quarantine, and other measures used by Iowa public health authorities to interrupt disease transmission in a vulnerable popul...

The article focuses on arrival of vessel from Kerkyra, Greece carrying dead crew members body died mysterious disease in Messina May 1743 and mentions redoubled quarantine that expresses isolation need collective Topics discussed include possibility writing when solitude started, social distance which strips what remains crisis capitalism, ecology China-U S -Russia strategic relation due to cor...

Marie-José Côté, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Laboratory (Fallowfield), Centre for Plant Quarantine Pests, 3851 Fallowfield Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2H 8P9; Marie-Claude Tardif, Health Canada, Food Directorate, Building #7, Tunney’s Pasture, P.L. 0700E1, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0L2; and Allison J. Meldrum, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Laboratory (Fallowfield), C...