Quarantine

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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:

• An alternative term for a naval blockade, particularly associated with the United States' "quarantine" of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis of late 1962
• Quarantine (video game), a 1994 video game for the 3DO and IBM PC systems
• Quarantine (film), a 2008 remake of the 2007 Spanish horror film REC
• Quarantine (Greg Egan novel), a 1992 science fiction novel by Greg Egan
• Quarantine (Jim Crace novel), a 1997 novel by Jim Crace
• "Quarantine" (The Twilight Zone), a 1986 episode of the television series
• Quarantine (record label), an English record label
• "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 Speech, a 1937 speech by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Quarantine technology
• In grants of indulgences, the term Quarantines means an ecclesiastical penance of forty days
• Quarantine (album), an album by GRITS
• Quarantine (band), a Canadian rock band

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