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{{1911POV}} [My notes from Wikipedia:Cleanup] The pre-ToC section is too long and a jumble of half-cited assertions, while the rest is typical 1911 EB: out of date, Anglo-centric, and with overlong paragraphs. This article may well become quite important over the next year or two, so current information would be great. -- Mpt 03:30, 17 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

At the top it says 'quarantine' is derived from Italian, yet later on it says it comes from medieval French. Did it come from French first? If somebody knows, please change it. Saccerzd 17:23, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't added this myself, but... from the diary of Samuel Pepys, entry from Thursday 26 November 1663 [1]

"... The plague, it seems, grows more and more at Amsterdam; and we are going upon making of all ships coming from thence and Hambrough, or any other infected places, to perform their Quarantine (for thirty days as Sir Rd. Browne expressed it in the order of the Council, contrary to the import of the word, though in the general acceptation it signifies now the thing, not the time spent in doing it) in Holehaven, a thing never done by us before." -- Lovingboth 08:30, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've edited the page, following this dictionary website entry: Italian quarantina, from quaranta (giorni), forty (days), from Latin quadrgint; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots. quaran·tina·ble adj. -- The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. [2] -- Kev 21:07, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am not a doctor, but it seems that quarantine is about protecting the community from something dangerous, not about protecting something vulnerable from the risks that everyday life poses. As such, I think the following are not examples of quarantine?

• Ted DeVita had severe aplastic anemia and lived in a sterile hospital environment for 8 years due to his compromised immune system.

• David Vetter suffered from a rare genetic disorder and lived his entire life in an isolated sterile environment.

I could be wrong. But if these are both examples of quarantine, then we need to rewrite the intro. Regards, Ben Aveling 10:12, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Some discussion of he legal and historical basis of quarantine power would be appropriate

See this Reuters article for details. 81.159.58.211 22:48, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Wikipedia now has an article on this: 2007 tuberculosis scare

I've even heard references to the yellow Quebec flag as a 'quarantine flag' in yachting, though it is still used to request entry into foreign waters. Could anyone shed some light on this? --203.147.67.94 (talk) 00:17, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

,mm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.93.177.172 (talk) 18:11, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

International maritime signal flags shows the contemporary meaning of signal flags. As this Quarantine article mentions (Control-F search for "flag"), a yellow-and-black flag flown alone presently warns that the ship is quarantined. The all-yellow "Q" flag presently announces no illness on board and requests entry to a port; this article mentions an old British requirement that ships liable to quarantine fly a yellow flag when near Britain, ("liable" implies certain ships including those without illness) and I suspect that somehow evolved into an announcement of lack of illness. The term "yellow jack" has been used historically for some sort of quarantine flag but we don't have an unambigious description of that flag. -- SEWilco (talk) 19:47, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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