Quarantine is used to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill. The term is often erroneously used synonymously with isolation, which is to separate ill persons who ha
Quarantine is used to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill. The term is often erroneously used synonymously with isolation, which is to separate ill persons who have a communicable disease from those who are healthy." The word comes from the Italian "quaranta", meaning forty, which is the number of days ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague epidemic. Mumps (epidemic parotitis) is a human viral disease caused by the mumps virus. It was a common childhood disease worldwide. Measles is an infection of the respiratory system caused by a virus, specifically a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus. Measles is spread through respiration, and is highly contagious, 90% of people without immunity sharing living space with an infected person will catch it. Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease caused by primary infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV). Chickenpox is an airborne disease which spreads easily through coughing or sneezing by ill individuals or through direct contact with secretions from the rash. A person with chickenpox is infectious one to two days before the rash appears. They remain contagious until all lesions have crusted over (approximately six days).
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