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2 unusual facts about Quarantine


Quarantine

The fear of a interplanetary contamination by back contamination from the Moon was the main reason for quarantine procedures adopted for the early Apollo program.

The UK's anti-rabies quarantine regulations were a major plot point in "A Diplomatic Incident", a 1987 episode of Yes, Prime Minister.


2009 flu pandemic in Venezuela

June 17: The health authorities placed an ocean cruiser on quarantine with more than 1.300 persons on board on Isla Margarita, since 3 persons were positive on the A (H1N1) virus exam.

A Measure of Salvation

Elsewhere, Cottle releases Sharon from quarantine - her body contains cells from having carried a half-human baby (Hera), giving her immunity.

Adware

Programs have been developed to detect, quarantine, and remove advertisement-displaying malware, including Ad-Aware, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, ADWCleaner, Spyware Doctor and Spybot - Search & Destroy.

Armenians in Lebanon

Other Armenians inhabited the area of Karantina (literally "Quarantine", a port-side district in the Lebanese capital of Beirut).

Berhala Island, Sabah

During the war, civilian internees, including Agnes Newton Keith and her husband Harry Keith were held in the quarantine station which served as a makeshift internment camp, before being transferred to Batu Lintang camp in Kuching, Sarawak.

Berrimah, Northern Territory

The original road reserve between Sections 41 and 42, Hundred of Bagot, became to be known as Berrimah Road and by September 1952, this name was officially gazetted as the access road south of the main Highway crossing to the Quarantine Station.

Border Security: Australia's Front Line

The show follows the work of officers of Australian Customs and Border Protection, the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship as they enforce Australian customs, quarantine, immigration and finance laws.

Charlie Huston

Wolverine: The Best There Is - Broken Quarantine (with Juan Jose Ryp and Brian Hitch, Marvel Comics), material collected in Wolverine: The Best There Is #7-12, January 2012

Christiaan Van Vuuren

He was in quarantine in a Sydney hospital twice for Tuberculosis.

Devine, British Columbia

--Miyazaki says Frank--> which employed Japanese-Canadians who had been Japanese Canadian internment relocated to McGillivray Falls (now McGillivray) which was just inside the 100-mile "quarantine zone" from the British Columbia Coast.

Diana's Hair Ego

While documenting an AIDS quarantine controversy in South Carolina with DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video Activist TV), filmmaker Ellen Spiro met DiAna DiAna, a local hairdresser who transformed her beauty parlor into a center for AIDS and safe sex information.

F. Emasculata

The agents note that the FBI does not normally investigate prison escapes, and become suspicious as the prison is quarantined by the CDC and the National Guard.

Federal Plant Pest Act of 1957

Under the new law, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) retains broad authority to inspect, seize, quarantine, treat, destroy or dispose of imported plant and animal materials that are potentially harmful to U.S. agriculture, horticulture, forestry, and, to a certain degree, natural resources.

Globodera rostochiensis

Nevertheless, for many Saanich farmers the quarantine caused considerable and long-lasting financial damage, particularly for those who had invested heavily in formerly lucrative potato industry.

Karnal bunt

Appearance of the disease in the United States in early 1996 resulted in the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) implementing an emergency quarantine, inspection, and certification program for wheat moving out of the infested areas, along with regulations on sanitizing machinery and storage facilities.

Kurt Raab

However, the illness remained poorly understood and Raab was placed in quarantine-like conditions in the Hamburg Tropical Institute.

Lake Placid: The Final Chapter

Clear Lake is being corralled by the Army Corps of Engineers, with a 10,000 voltages electric barrier quarantine to lock the crocodiles in the lake, purposing to let the crocodiles starve and die off, in spite of that fact that world's population of crocodiles is decreasing day by day.

Lovers in Quarantine

the film is based on a 1924 Broadway play Quarantine by F. Tennyson Jesse.

Manoel Island

In 1643 Jean Paul Lascaris, Grandmaster of the Knights of Malta, constructed a quarantine hospital (lazzaretto) on the island, in an attempt to control the periodic influx of plague and cholera on board visiting ships.

Mattie Liptak

Mattie Liptak (born April 10, 1996) is an American actor best known for his role as George in the horror film, Quarantine 2: Terminal, a sequel to the 2008 film, Quarantine.

Mobile Quarantine Facility

The Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) is a converted Airstream trailer used by NASA to quarantine astronauts returning from Apollo lunar missions.

Nathalie Sergueiew

Unfortunately British quarantine regulations meant that Babs was left behind at Gibraltar.

North Head Quarantine Station

For many years Percy Nolan, an alderman and mayor of Manly, pushed for the removal of the Quarantine Station from Manly and called for its use as public open space.

Papaya ringspot virus

Production was then moved from Oahu to the Puna region of Hawaii island (the "Big Island") under strict quarantine.

Pest house

Partridge Island, New Brunswick, just outside the main harbour of Saint John, was chosen as the location for a pest house and quarantine station as far back as 1785.

PETS

Pet Travel Scheme, which allows animals to travel internationally without quarantine

Plant Quarantine Act

The Plant Quarantine Act, originally enacted in 1912 (7 U.S.C. 151 et seq.), gave the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) authority to regulate the importation and interstate movement of nursery stock and other plants that may carry pests and diseases that are harmful to agriculture.

Port of Tianjin governance, traffic management and law enforcement

Inbound ships, cargo and personnel require clearance by four main government bodies: China Customs for customs declaration, Border Inspection for migration formalities, China Inspection and Quarantine for quarantine and fumigation, and the MSA for ship and crew safety regulations.

Robert Menzies Mitchell

He also served as quarantine inspector along the Soo Line from 1901 to 1902.

Spencer Monument

His body was, however, kept in quarantine at Lazaretto for the full 40 days required, and his body was buried at the Bastion of Saint Michael in Valletta on 12 December.

SS Ellengowan

Copeland had mortgaged the Ellengowan to Herbert H. Adcock and Richard De la Poer Beresford, who then used her as a quarantine hulk for Chinese passengers from Hong Kong to make up the 21 days port before being allowed to land.

Taigan

To avoid hurting the feelings of the Kyrgyz delegation, the mayor of the city of Trondheim, Rita Ottervik, decided to take care of the two puppies, which were later given to experienced dog owners after they had passed quarantine.

The Naked God

Elsewhere, the most infamous 'returnee' of the possessed, Al Capone, uses his organisational skills to conquer the planet New California and turn it into the hub of an expanding empire, 'The Organisation', with the Confederation Navy hard-pressed to deal with checking its advance whilst maintaining the quarantine.

Thirty-Day Princess

On her way to New York to find financial backing for her impoverished country, the Ruritanian Kingdom of Taronia, Princess "Zizzi" Catterina (Sylvia Sidney) falls ill with the mumps and has to be quarantined for a month.


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