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:

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

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