Assertion: modern quarantine | /r/CapableOf | prevent plague epidemics
Facets:
value: from spreading to coastal cities
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: It’s difficult to quantify the effectiveness of a modern-day quarantine, a practice that was created in the 14th century in Venice, Italy, to prevent plague epidemics from spreading to coastal cities from ships that had returned to port.