member of the Hunterian Society of Edinburgh. He started on his career as an assistant to a practitioner in London; and being desirous of visiting foreign parts, he next took employment in the Government mail-packet service, which gave him opportunities of going to the West Indies, and to the Mediterranean, where the odious usage of quarantine was then exercised to its fullest extent. He retain...

In the absence of valid medicines or vaccine, quarantine and isolation strategies are the most important and effective measures against the outbreaks of epidemic diseases such as SARS. This paper discusses the application of the optimal quarantine and isolation strategies for SARS outbreak control via the Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle. We construct a multigroup SARS transmission model for trav...

This paper seeks to balance the regional and thematic focus of cholera historiography by examining maritime quarantine in Busan, as it was devised and implemented by Japanese officials and doctors during the pre-colonial period. It also places the relationship between Korea and Japan in the context of relations with China, Russia and Britain. This paper shows that quarantine measures in Busan a...

prevalence of contagious diseases through foreign passengers and crews is one the serious problems in big ports. in the late qajar period, bushehr port became an important port because of military, political and economical reasons. in this time, some diseases such as plague and cholera prevailed in some iran’s neighbor countries like india and iraq and spread in bushehr by passengers and crews....

Coronavirus disease-19 was a pandemic in the world. One of efforts to reduce spread Covid-19 cases self-quarantine. Self-quarantine impacted emotional mental disorders form anxiety. This study aimed identify factors related anxiety patients who were undergoing METHODS: used descriptive research design with cross-sectional study. The population all confirmed COVID-19 underwent self-quarantine Wo...

The Chinese government enforced mandatory quarantine for 60 days (from 10 May to 8 July 2009) as a preventative strategy to control the spread of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Such a prevention strategy was stricter than other non-pharmaceutical interventions that were carried out in many other countries. We evaluated the effectiveness of the mandatory quarantine and provide suggestions for intervent...

By utilizing quarantine and isolation as public health tools we are in many ways battling twenty-first century pathogens with a fourteenth century toolbox. It is important for all to recognize the technical difference between the distinct public health measures of isolation and quarantine. Isolation is the separation and/or restricted movement of persons with a contagious disease from the large...

The aim of this study was to analyze the self-perceived general health, oral care, stress, academic environment, and harmful habits Mexican dental students during COVID-19 quarantine period. This descriptive observational consisted a self-perception survey that sent undergoing virtual classes. Five sections were analyzed: General Health, Oral Stress, Academic Environment Habits. For each questi...

Quarantine measures including treatments are applied to exported fruit and vegetable commodities to control regulatory fruit fly pests and to reduce the likelihood of their introduction into new areas. Nonhost status can be an effective measure used to achieve quarantine security. As with quarantine treatments, nonhost status can stand alone as a measure if there is high efficacy and statistica...