Talk:Quarantine

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[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The pre-ToC section is too long and a jumble of half-cited assertions, while the rest is typical 1911 EB: out of date, Anglo-centric, and with overlong paragraphs.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)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: 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)
replies: text: I was more bold than you since I have deleted these items even before seeing your contribution on the talk page. Of coure you are right! Why it took so long to be fixed? 92.144.58.63 (talk) 20:20, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protecting who? 

message: See this Reuters article for details. 81.159.58.211 22:48, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  US issues first federal quarantine order since 1963 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Contemporary use of the quarantine (Lima) flag 

message: The quotes attributed to those claiming to quote Muhammed should be re-written without the hagiographic parenthetical content. He's just another entry on Wikipedia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.121.212.143 (talk) 13:24, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm cool with calling him the Prophet Mohammed, just as I'm cool with Saint Paul. The Islamocentric language goes far beyond that, and it's patently absurd to burden all of Wikipedia with it. 192.12.184.2 (talk) 21:50, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Islamocentric Bias

message: Some ultra-conservative politicians apparently wanted to quarantine AIDS patients during the 1980s, a suggestion that had a sizable hint of homophobia attached to it. I am thinking of Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was in favour of this earlier on in his political career. ADM (talk) 13:22, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: AIDS

message: because areas, places, persons etc all can be quarantined depends on the level of infections--222.64.25.74 (talk) 00:03, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The definition of the term needs to be formally made..... 

message: Biosafety and Biosecurity to this article--222.64.219.241 (talk) 02:16, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please link the topics of.... 

message: I deleted the passages raarding Avicenna becuase the source is partisan, and therfore, biased.
The source is: David W. Tschanz, MSPH, PhD (August 2003). "Arab Roots of European Medicine", Heart Views 4 (2)
This article claims the origin of the Quarantine is found in the work of Avicenna ,when we all know that Quarantine originated in Venice during the Black Death. Even if Avicenna advocated the isolation from the sick peple to avoid contagion, i doubt it was for fory days,like in Venice.Furthermore,as this article says, 2500 years before Avicenna there was a practice of separating sick people.I took the Bible and voila!! it was there.So this is a practice with a long,long,long history.
But wait,there´s more: David W. Tschanz is a scholar who lives in Saudi Arabia and works for the state owned oil company Saudi Aramco.Can we trust a shcolar who works for a saudi arabian company, and livesin Saudi Arabia, in a matter like Arab contributions to Europe??.Besides, just reading the article makes every person with a bit of critical thinking aware of the bias.
Therefore, the infromation regadring Avicenna and Ibn Kahtima will be removed.Unless better sources are provided, of course.--Knight1993 (talk) 15:45, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Avicenna 

message: "Up until now it was becoming a less strict policy but with the harmful chemicals and diseases coming from Chinese products it is becoming strict again."
This sentence in the United States section of Legal is biased, is not from a NPOV and unnecessary.
Could someone with editing rights remove it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.98.70.49 (talk) 17:45, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias 

message: The image for the flag is L, lima: Flown separately, it is used to denote, "I have or had some dangerous, infectious disease on board."
perhaps a better, more appropriate flag would be Q, Quebec: In foreign waters flown separately, it is hoisted on quarantine hospitals. Hoisted when entering ports it denotes "I have a clean bill of health, but am liable to quarantine." 
The Q flag is more representative of the quarantine condition.
Wdavislee (talk) 18:10, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag Image 

message: What is the etymology of the word? An unreferenced etymology has been removed from our Old Calton Cemetery article:
* "Prior to this date a separate leper colony had existed on the hill, tended by the friars, but these really required a better facility. Numbers had greatly increased in 1568, following an outbreak of plague. Infected persons had to spend 40 days here to be declared clear of the disease. Those 40 evenings give rise to the term quarantine, from Franco-Scots quarant (40) e’en (evenings)."
Does anyone have a WP:RS? --Mais oui! (talk) 13:04, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: I think typhoid Mary was not quarantined but isolated.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.224.152.103 (talk) 11:35, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Clearly, both Mary Mallon and Andrew Speaker were medically isolated because they were not suspected of having an illness--they were known to be infected. The whole purpose of quarantine is to allow a disease to run its course so that others will not be exposed to it. Mallon was isolated because there was no pharmaceutical treatment for typhoid at that time and she refused surgery. Speaker was isolated during the initial phase of his treatment, which included surgical removal of part of his lung. If there are no reasonable objections, I will delete their names from the article, for the sake of consistency, as the introduction states: "The term is often erroneously used to mean medical isolation, which is 'to separate ill persons who have a communicable disease from those who are healthy.'" Cmacauley (talk) 19:21, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

text: The same holds for the case of Robert Daniels, who was isolated because he was considered to be noncompliant with treatment of his XDR-TB. Cmacauley (talk) 19:41, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typhoid Mary 

message: Part of Auschwitz was a quarantine camp, one reason being typhus, which was rampant in Poland during world war one: http://www.scrapbookpages.com/AuschwitzScrapbook/Tour/Birkenau/Birkenau01A.html This should be mentioned in the article --41.150.175.109 (talk) 22:18, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Auschwitz-Birkenau 

message: Not only with humans but also for animals and plants quarantine is done.   Quarantine is also done with diseased plant or infected plant samples. 
2409:4060:2017:F88E:A5E0:8244:A65:A7F2 (talk) 13:17, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I had to look this up to learn more about this subject. Apparently plant quarantine is practiced. Please see https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/planthealth/import-information/SA_Quarantine_Treatments/CT_us_plant_quarantine_programs Jurisdicta (talk) 21:44, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plant disease quarantine 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Quoranteen. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 August 25#Quoranteen until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Hog Farm  Talk 19:40, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Quoranteen" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: A Karantén szép magyar fordítás eredménye, ugyan is a Quaranten 40 napi elzárást jelent . 4x10 nap. 2A01:36D:1201:8E8:1DEF:8E17:F3F2:791 (talk) 01:32, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Történelem 

message: — Assignment last updated by PHKJIU (talk) 02:43, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Research Seminar in Digital and Public History

message: There is a talmud reference as well https://www.torahmusings.com/2020/03/talmudic-advice-on-epidemics/?ssp=1&darkschemeovr=1&setlang=en-ZA&safesearch=moderate
In Bava Qamma 60b(https://www.sefaria.org/Bava_Kamma.60b.2?lang=bi), it says when there's a plague, gather your feet(meaning don't spend too much time outside of your home) 105.184.11.130 (talk) 11:26, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Talmud