
From Romans to MDGs: The Stories of Public Health
All Things Policy
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What Is Quarantine?
Quarantine is a public health measure which dates back to the fourteenth century, when actually the black death happened in italy and rest of europe. Initially quarantin ment prope forty day period. This practice was continued across several epidemic, several outbreaks across the globe for a very, very long period of time. So we can thank the romans for our modern flupping systemwe can thank romans for a lot of other things. Eswere sill they are coming to the more recent recent times with the coet 19 pandemic. Everybody knows about quanty an isolation. Can you tell us more about how we developed an understanding of these measures and started using them?
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