Three years later, the town of Ragusa establishes a quarantine station where all people arriving from plague-infested regions are kept isolated for a month for "purification by sun and wind." ...

One list requiring border quarantine outlines 11 highly contagious and potentially lethal illnesses, including plague, cholera, yellow fever and Ebola, the National Administration of Disease ...

World radio premiere of Albert Camus’s classic novel of a town hit by plague and how its residents respond to quarantine. Recorded during UK lockdown with actors self isolating. Show more The ...

In Italy, this was called ‘quaranta giorni’ or quarantine, meaning forty days. Measures like forced isolation and wearing protective clothing did actually help to prevent the plague from ...

Not because they wanted to protect the rights of the Chinese, but it was bad for business to have people thinking there was plague in their city or state. The quarantine was lifted but health ...

The Environment Agency said it had ruled out crayfish plague as a cause of death A zoo may have to quarantine white-clawed crayfish to prevent them dying from a mystery illness. About 70 of the ...

The spooky story begins at a mass grave discovered on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo, a location used as a bubonic plague quarantine in the late 1500s and 1600s. In 2006, archeological ...