quarantine
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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
Director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the final contact of a person exposed to hantavirus on the MV Hondius had completed their quarantine period, tested negative and returned home.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
In a news release last week from the department, a new quarantine area in San Diego County was expanded by 19 square miles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
Everyone knows about the quarantine, even if it’s breached.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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When mandated quarantines ended, he would declare victory.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 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 quarantines for returning travelers could end up being lengthy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
JumboTrons, always on, regardless of power shortages, display the latest warnings about floods and quarantines.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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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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Washington’s manic quarantining of cruise-ship passengers, its restricting of foreign entry, probably did next to nothing to slow spread until a vaccine and the less-virulent omicron variants arrived, which took a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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
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
Then they tested what happens when different interventions - culling birds, quarantining close contacts and targeted vaccination - kicked in.
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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