(n.) Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed.
(n.) The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized.
(v. t.) To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given place, without intercourse, when suspected of having contagious disease; to put under, or in, quarantine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Policies recommending quarantine, isolation, mandatory testing of certain populations, and vigorous public education are explored.
(2) Control measures against the disease include quarantine restrictions and prevention by means of specific preparations of active and passive effect.
(3) Huge blocks of frozen meat at a cold store in Northern Ireland, Freeza Foods, which had been quarantined by officials suspicious of its labelling and state of packaging, were found to contain 80% horse.
(4) More than 40 people known to have come into contact with her have been quarantined.
(5) Quarantines appeared to be effective in restricting the VEE virus activity to south Texas.
(6) A one month quarantine period for incoming stock was established, and only gI-seronegative pigs were admitted to the herd.
(7) They also confirmed there was no guarantee that the fund will not supplant existing National Health and Medical Research Council funding – which is not quarantined.
(8) Barbara Shaw, the Alice Springs-based anti-Intervention campaigner, speaks of how welfare quarantining particularly rankles with Indigenous people who remembered the not-so-distant past: “There are a lot of people out there who, when they were young fellas, they only got paid rations.
(9) Pham’s dog, held in quarantine in Dallas, has also tested negative for Ebola .
(10) Pertinent themes in the history of responses to epidemic disease in the United States in the past two hundred years include an initial underestimation of the severity of the epidemic; the prevalence of fear and anxiety; flight, denial, and scape-goating as a result of fear; efforts to quarantine and isolate carriers and the sick; the assertion of rational policies by coalitions of business, government, and medical leaders; the recruitment of a special cadre of physicians to treat the sick; the similarity of responses to both epidemic and endemic infectious diseases; and the high cost of epidemics, which is shared by government, philanthropy, and private individuals.
(11) It provides a measure of relief and reassurance.” Five of the students who had been under quarantine or monitoring returned to school on Monday, and the remaining students will be back in school by Tuesday, Dallas Independent School District superintendent Mike Miles said Monday.
(12) He was unable to embrace her because of the quarantine restrictions.
(13) Conventional approaches to public health stemming from epidemics of the 19th century included mandatory screening, isolation, quarantine, contact tracing, and breaking patient confidentiality.
(14) In Brisbane during October 1988 one larva of the exotic dengue vector Aedes albopictus (Skuse) was collected by quarantine officers from a consignment of used vehicle tyres imported from Asia.
(15) Can we help my dad to come?’ And they fixed his papers to come to this country,” said Duncan’s brother Wilfred Smallwood, whose son, Oliver Smallwood, remains in quarantine with the rest of the household that hosted Duncan before he was diagnosed with Ebola .
(16) It was recommended to extend the quarantine areas as well as the radius of ring vaccination and to prolong the period of quarantine.
(17) We recommend that virus detection software be installed on personal computers where the interchange of diskettes among computers is necessary, that write-protect tabs be placed on all program master diskettes and data diskettes where data are being read and not written, that in the event of a computer virus outbreak, all available diskettes be quarantined and scanned by virus detection software, and to facilitate quarantine and scanning in an outbreak, that diskettes be stored in organized files.
(18) Immediately after beginning to feel ill and discovering he was running a slight fever, the cameraman quarantined himself and sought medical advice.
(19) The rarity of Marburg and Ebola virus transmission, decreasing use of imported African monkeys, and quarantine efforts have presumably been responsible for the lack of additional episodes until 1989, when a new filovirus related to Ebola was isolated from quarantined monkeys in Reston, Virginia.
(20) The system of monitoring, quarantine and isolation was established to protect those who cared for Mr Duncan as well as the community at large by identifying any potential ebola cases as early as possible and getting those individuals into treatment immediately.” Duncan travelled from Liberia to the US on 19 September to join his girlfriend, Louise Troh, the mother of his son, Karsiah.
Sanitary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of mass prophylactic screening of the population for tuberculosis in the south of the Aral sea costal region have been generalized with consideration of its geographic and sanitary--epidemiologic conditions.
(2) Several potential risk factors have been described, including the recent use of antibiotics and oral contraceptives, the presence of diabetes mellitus, dietary practices, gastrointestinal colonization by the organism, clothing and sanitary protection practices, sexual communicability of the organism, and specific immunological defects.
(3) In the interview, he also pledged to scrap the 5% rate of VAT on sanitary products, known as the “tampon tax”.
(4) The punctual verify of vaccinal covering rate in a little Sanitary District in the Province of Treviso points out values higher than 90%.
(5) Current sanitary surveillance at the Moscow Metro was analyzed under the conditions of scientific and technical revolution.
(6) Sanitary measures including toilet hygiene and boiling milk and water were recommended to avoid illness, and the guests departed.
(7) As illustrated by some antennas the dependence of sanitary and limitation zones on the wavelength, radiated power and the type of soil has been studied.
(8) The greatest reduction of health risks would come from the routine depuration of clams harvested from growing waters of good sanitary quality.
(9) Some sanitary-prophylaxis measures are recommended basing on the knowledge of breeding and activity periods of man-biting mosquitos.
(10) Along with the organization of control and supervision while conducting sanitary and hygienic and anti-epidemic measures at the territories within the jurisdiction of SES, the role and participation of sanitary and epidemiological institutions in the control of health status in view of harmful effect of environmental factors and prevention of diseases among population are demonstrated.
(11) 1982) exposed to screening for various, sanitary measures.
(12) Their report includes the results of a survey about the sanitary protection of the children and about the respect of the ideal immunization schedule and recommended in Ivory Coast (39,9% in town and 6,2% in rural area).
(13) Other factors which possibly contribute to the current pattern of hepatitis in California are the overcrowding and inadequate sanitary facilities among a portion of young people between the ages of 15 and 30.
(14) According to materials of the symposium at the XVI All-Union Congress of Microbiologists and Epidemiologists the author presents some trends in the improvement of teaching epidemiology, including renovation of the programs and teaching plans at the sanitary-hygienic faculty, development of practical habits and rationalization in the organization of practical work at the therapeutic and pediatric faculties.
(15) There was a marked variation in the prevalence of infection in the three areas, correlated with the socioeconomic standards and sanitary habits, emphasizing their role in the spread of the disease.
(16) The history of the formation of the sanitary and hygienic service in the GDR is outlined with special reference to the friendly assistance of the USSR.
(17) Measures taken by the sanitary service of Ukraine aimed at environmental protection from contamination by toxic industrial wastes are presented.
(18) Three groups of 20 women each used the regular, super, and super-plus sizes of a digitally inserted rayon and cotton tampon; two additional groups of 20 each used external sanitary protection or an applicator-inserted rayon polyacrylate tampon.
(19) Materials regarding the main directions and forms of participation of sanitary and epidemiological station (SES) specialists in the process of overall dispensarization of population, supply of information, the evaluation of the performance of different subdivisions and SES specialists are provided.
(20) Throughout the decade we worked on the following aspects: promotion of an Infection Control Committee, promotion of a unit for Epidemiological Surveillance for Hospital Infection and design of sanitary control of the hospital environment.