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• Quarantine — The period of isolation decreed to control the spread of infectious disease. Before the era of antibiotics, quarantine as one of the few available means for halting the spread of infectious diseases. It is still employed as needed, for example,… …   Medical dictionary

• quarantine — I. noun Etymology: partly modification of French quarantaine, from Old French, from quarante forty, from Latin quadraginta, from quadra (akin to quattuor four) + ginta (akin to viginti twenty); partly modification of Italian quarantena quarantine …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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• 2008 Chinese milk scandal — For timeline of events in the contamination, see Timeline of the 2008 Chinese milk scandal. Stripped shelves in a supermarket in China as a result of the contamination (September 2008) The 2008 Chinese milk scandal was a food safety incident in… …   Wikipedia

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• Extra-Terrestrial Exposure Law — The Extra Terrestrial Exposure Law (14 C.F.R. §1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations) was the popular name for a United States administrative regulation promulgated in 1969 to prevent the spread of biological contamination from space.… …   Wikipedia

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