Background: While global media and local & international health organisations provide regularly updated information statistics on the number of COVID-19 cases deaths, little is known psychosocial impact quarantine. Quarantine measures during pandemics such as present complex challenges. Determining equitable effective application policies difficult, particularly concerning associated men...

T woman is quarantined in an isolation cell constructed of heavy gauge steel walls that are virtually sound-proof. Complete with a shower and a television, each cell is its own self-contained unit, effectively sealing off contact with all other persons. In one corner is an anteroom leading to a door. When the door is opened, the visitor is in contact with only the limited space of the anteroom....

Background: Self-care is an important concept in the control of Covid -19 disease and a simple and effective way to maintain and improve health. The aim of this study was to examine the role of general health and health literacy in predicting self-care behaviors of patients with Covid-19. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study with predictive correlational design. The sample consisted of 3...

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...