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quarantine
The period during which a person or animal must be kept under observation in isolation from the community after having been in contact with an infectious disease. The duration of quarantine depends on the disease(s) concerned and their maximum incubation period. The term derives from the period of 40 days that ships from the Levant had to wait before their crews could disembark at medieval European ports, from fear of their carrying plague.
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