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Quarantine is a medical term for the act of keeping an object in enforced isolation for a period of time to limit or prevent the spread of disease or infection.
Quarantine may also refer to:
Medicine and disease
Cordon sanitaire, isolation of a geographic region to prevent transmission of disease beyond the region
Biocontainment, isolation of medical samples of infected tissues and disease agents
Government and law
An alternative term for a naval
blockade, particularly associated with the United States' "quarantine" of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis of late 1962
A grace period of 40 days during which a
widow has the right to remain in her dead husband's home, regardless of the inheritance [citation needed]
Quarantine Speech, a 1937 speech by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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