quarantine
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In contrast, Uganda managed to quarantine more than 6,000 contacts of people known to have Ebola during the outbreak.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
South Carolina’s health department required unvaccinated students exposed to measles to quarantine for three weeks after possible exposure and eventually declared the outbreak over within seven months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
In the end, Price’s designer makeover came at the perfect time, concluding just before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw the family forced to quarantine inside the dwelling for weeks on end.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
We arrived in California on Easter Sunday and joined the rest of the world in quarantine, not knowing how it would affect our work and financial future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
"By the way, she says the doctors want you back ASAP. You're supposed to be in quarantine."
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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 future historians face toilet-paper shortages, quarantines and contact tracing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
Connecting forced and chosen quarantines with experiences of incarceration, she explores also the solidarity that can arise in situations of the greatest difficulty and oppression.
From Salon ● May 8, 2025
JumboTrons, always on, regardless of power shortages, display the latest warnings about floods and quarantines.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
Eighteen Americans have been quarantined for weeks at a specialized facility at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
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
But a top US health official said the 17 American passengers would not necessarily be quarantined.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
Had he been quarantined, infected with some sleeping sickness?
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
After that, Ugandan officials quickly swung into action, tracking down and quarantining dozens of people the man had encountered while ill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
It didn’t take endless quarantining with my spouse during the COVID-19 pandemic to end my marriage of over two decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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
Spain's health ministry earlier said one Spaniard who is quarantining in Madrid after being evacuated from the vessel had also provisionally tested positive for hantavirus on Monday.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
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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