What is it about?

Quarantine is an old idea but it was given new life when Ebola threatened to expand to pandemic status. This paper looked at the idea of quarantine, historically and in today's environment, and at several scales of appplication.

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Why is it important?

When epidemics stalk, quarantine remains a tool for its constraint...if we wish to use it.

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This page is a summary of: Ebola, Quarantine, and the Scale of Ethics, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, October 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2015.115.
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