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    “‘Quarantine’? What does that mean?” Piccolino Margheri asked, staring at the newspaper article he had just pulled out of his school bag, smuggled from his father that morning. The front page was headlined: ‘Arcea Quarantined! Fifteen Contract the Bern River Virus in Two Weeks!’ “It means that the Prime Minister of Monora has issued the complete isolation of Arcea to prevent the spread of the Bern River Virus. They believe it will spread if it’s not contained,” Piccolino’s classmate, Maylene Lagorio, had read the paper before coming to school. “No one can enter or exit the quarantined area?” “No one other than the members of the Board of Medical Research and Quarantine and Inspection Services and the people who bring us food and water,”…

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    implementation of various quarantine practices led to the requirement for regulation of these policies and necessitated the formation of the first specialized hospitals and the creation of public health offices. Many of the modern medicinal policies for dealing with highly contagious diseases can be traced back to these primary practices and have changed…

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    "Mary Mallon's Trail of Typhoid." 1989. FDA Consumer (U.S. Food and Drug Administration). SIRS Discoverer, sks.sirs.com/webapp/article?artno=0000000995&type=ART. Accessed 10 Oct. 2016. This source offers information about George Soper, the health official that persistently tried to learn more about Mary's diagnosis. Also, information about the symptoms of Typhoid Fever as well as information about where Mary was held in quarantine is offered. The perspectives on Mary's case are very important to…

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    Typhoid Fever You have no doubt heard about the notorious case of Typhoid Mary. Mary Mallon, more commonly known by the title of Typhoid Mary, was a cook who resided in New York City who was responsible for unwittingly infecting nearly 53 people with typhoid and causing 3 deaths as a result. Despite being prohibited from continuing to work as a cook, she took up a new identity to continue working. This led to another typhoid outbreak that led to her being forced into quarantine for nearly 30…

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    Typhoid fever in itself is not a disease well known by history. Typhoid fever played only a small part in the history of the human race and compared to other diseases comes across as more of a nuisance with exception to its role in the Plague of Athens. On the surface, “enteric fever” causes a small but common array of symptoms: fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, chills, muscle aches and skin rash. The cause of the disease is salmonella typhi, a bacterium that rides contaminated…

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    Mary Mallon, known as “Typhoid Mary,” was an Irish maid in New York from the early 1900s, and was known for spreading Typhoid. At the time, Mary was a cook and a typhoid carrier, and with that she exposed many people to typhoid, by “shedding” typhoid and infecting others, as she handled and prepared food (Leavitt, 2004). Mary was just going about her daily business, and didn't know at first that she even was a carrier of Typhoid. I feel Mary was treated horribly, by isolating her on an island,…

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    broad authority to negotiate with other nations a lowering of tariffs by up to 50%” The agreements also had a unique application to Latin American countries; by encouraging the export of U.S. manufactured goods into Latin America and the import of Latin American raw materials into the United States, a “quasi-colonial relationship” was instituted. This played a large and influential part in tripling U.S. trade with Latin America in the years between 1931 and 1941, and re-strengthening the United…

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    As a result of the hurt and devastation caused by the plague, the stop to it was just as devastating. Once the outbreak got to the point of consuming a nation the leaders then started to look at how they could prevent further damage. As a result, to their thinking they began to close the gates to their villages and prevent anyone who was suspected of being ill or who was a stranger from entering (Tognotti, 2013, p. 255). This was the beginning of quarantine, a medical strategy that was used in…

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    However, chemicals aren’t the only ways to control disease. Quarantine can be a simple way to stop the spread of disease. As Randy Ploetz, a professor of plant pathology, says in his article: “In pathogen-free regions, effective quarantine and exclusion are essential.” Once soil is infected by Panama disease there is no way to remove it (Ploetz). Quarantine can slow the spread but diseases like Panama and Black Sigatoka are easily tracked in on boots, farming equipment or machinery. The Farmer…

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    Jim Crace's Quarantine

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    Jim Crace, the author of Quarantine, was born at Brocket Hall, England. When Crace decided to go to school, he ended up going to the University of London. There, he edited a local newspaper while earning a degree in English Literature in 1968. Soon after graduating, Crace traveled around the world and became exposed to many different cultures. While he was abroad, he assisted writing and producing educational programs for a television network. Finally in 1976, he started to work on his own as a…

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