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LECTURE ONE
Introduction
Isolation and quarantine help protect the public by preventing
exposure to people who have or may have a contagious disease.
The disease must also have high mortality and morbidity rate.
• Quarantine may be defined as the limitation or
segregation(Sepration) of human beings or other living
creatures, who may have come, either hypothetically or
actually, into contact with transmissible pathologies, until
the moment when it is considered certain that they no
longer constitute a health risk.
• The term and the concept of quarantine are profoundly
rooted in culture and world health procedures, and have
periodically recalled peak interest in the course of
epidemics.
• Infectious tuberculosis
• Smallpox