Quarantine - Quarantine

Japanese: クアランティン - くあらんてぃん
Quarantine - Quarantine

…One of the measures to prevent the source and route of infection in epidemic prevention. It refers to restricting the activities of healthy contacts exposed to an infectious disease during the incubation period in order to prevent the spread of the disease. It also refers to the tests and systems implemented at airports and seaports for this purpose. Quarantine means 40 days in Italian, but it came to mean quarantine after ships entering Italy from the Levant and Egypt were moored for 40 days in 1377 to prevent the plague. An infectious disease that is not endemic in the country and only becomes prevalent when the pathogen is brought in from overseas is called an exotic infectious disease, and quarantine is carried out as a measure against exotic infectious diseases. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Quarantine" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…防疫のうちの感染源・感染経路対策の一つ。伝染病に曝露した健康接触者に対してその潜伏期間中,病気の伝播を防ぐ目的で行動制限を行うこと。またそのために空港,海港で実施する検査とそのシステムをいう。quarantineはイタリア語で40日間を意味するが,1377年ペスト予防のためにイタリアでレバントおよびエジプトより入港する船を40日間係留したことから,検疫の意味に用いられるようになった。国内には常在せず,病原体が海外から持ち込まれた場合のみ流行する伝染病を外来伝染病というが,この外来伝染病の対策として検疫が行われる。…

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