quarantine
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The move comes after the end of a 42-day quarantine at a facility in Nebraska for exposed American cruise ship passengers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
"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
We were not yet in the camp proper but in a kind of quarantine compound outside.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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
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
Farmer strongly believed that quarantines were not an effective strategy for handling AIDS, but the Cuban approach had been far more humane.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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On Thursday, Congolese health authorities quarantined a boat carrying 255 people near the capital, Kinshasa, after a passenger who had disembarked at an earlier stop died from Ebola-like symptoms in late July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
"I tied him up and delivered food to some quarantined families. Bite me."
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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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
And many American doctors initially opposed the procedure as dangerous, medically unproven, and expensive because of physicians’ often-hefty fees and the cost of maintaining facilities for quarantining people temporarily after they were inoculated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 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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