Quarantine (disambiguation)

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
Isolation (health care), isolation of infected to prevent transmission of disease
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
Quarantine Speech, a 1937 speech by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Films

Quarantined (film), a 1970 television film
Quarantine (1923 film), a 1923 German silent film
Quarantine (1983 film), a 1983 Soviet children's film
Quarantine (2000 film), a 2000 American thriller television film
Quarantine (2008 film), a 2008 science fiction horror film

Literature

Quarantine (Egan novel), a 1992 science fiction novel by Greg Egan
Quarantine (Crace novel), a 1997 novel by Jim Crace
Quarantine (poem), a poem by Eavan Boland about the Irish famine

Music

Quarantine, a 2010 album by GRITS
Quarantine (Laurel Halo album), 2012
"Quarantine", a song by Flobots from Noenemies

Television

"Quarantine" (Red Dwarf), a 1992 episode of the British sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf
"Quarantine" (Stargate Atlantis), a fourth-season episode of the sci-fi series Stargate Atlantis
"Quarantine" (The Twilight Zone), a 1986 episode of the television series
"Quarantine" (TUGS episode), the fifth episode of TUGS
"Quarantine", a 1976 episode of The Onedin Line

Other uses

Quarantine (video game), a 1994 video game for the 3DO and IBM PC systems
Quarantine (antivirus program), a 1989 antivirus program
In grants of indulgences, the term Quarantines means an ecclesiastical penance of 40 days

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