quarantine
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In March, a quarantine was placed over La Mesa after multiple Mexican fruit flies were found.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
"I caught measles in the middle of 1942, and my doctor told me to spend three weeks in bed in quarantine," the 85-year-old recalled.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
President William Ruto previously said it would be "unfortunate" to refuse the request for the quarantine centre after decades of US health assistance.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Hoping to intervene before others got sick, the families reported the illnesses to the dairy and the state, which quickly issued a recall and quarantine order, suspending distribution of the farm’s products.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
The C.D.C. also temporarily revoked the licenses of three companies, Hazleton Research Products, the Charles River Primates Corporation, and Worldwide Primates, charging these companies with violations of quarantine rules.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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Ongoing quarantines can affect locals who grow and sell fruits and also residents of the affected areas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
When mandated quarantines ended, he would declare victory.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
To be sure, screwworms can be contained through quarantines, tighter surveillance, and other methods.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
The department said it had also enacted "quarantines, movement controls, and surveillance" in that area.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
The medical discoveries made by such brilliant scientists as Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch led to procedures such as vaccination and measures such as quarantines that, when mandated by the government, saved millions of lives.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that the U.S. plans to transport all seven Americans to Germany, where they will likely continue to be quarantined.
From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026
Two of the exposed Californians are quarantined at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
If any quarantined passengers develop symptoms, they will be moved to biocontainment units.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
Soon after their arrival they will be repatriated, or, in the case of the 14 Spaniards aboard, taken to Madrid to be quarantined.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
When one cousin caught the measles or mumps, we were all quarantined together so as to get that childhood illness over and done with.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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Oceanwide’s Hondius will be cleaned and disinfected in the Netherlands, with crew and staff quarantining, but the company hasn’t planned future sailing cancellations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
In the U.S., some Americans who disembarked earlier in the trip and returned home before the outbreak had been made public are quarantining at home.
From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026
Some other countries were only quarantining people from the ship for a few days before telling them to isolate at home, the minister said.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
Isolating infected people and quarantining households can stop the virus at the secondary stage.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
Currie admitted that the illness was “strengthened by a particular construction of the atmosphere,” but he insisted that the best way to deal with it was by quarantining the sick.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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