Quarantine (disambiguation)

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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 ^{[citation needed]}
• Quarantine Speech, a 1937 speech by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• COVID-19 community quarantines in the Philippines, a set of community quarantines during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines

Films

• Quarantined (film), a 1970 US television film
• Quarantine (1923 film), a 1923 German silent film
• Quarantine (1983 film), a 1983 Soviet children's film
• Quarantine (2008 film), a 2008 US science fiction horror film
• Quarantine 2: Terminal, a 2011 US science fiction horror film, sequel to the 2008 film
• Quarantine (2021 film), a 2021 Russian dystopian drama 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 2017 song by Flobots from Noenemies
• "Quarantine" (Blink-182 song), a 2020 single

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
• "Quarantine", an episode of The Good Doctor
• "Quarantine", an episode of Zoey 101

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

See also

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• All pages with titles containing quarantine or quarantines
• All pages with titles beginning with Quarantine
• Sanitorium
  , medical isolation facility
• Biosafety level

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