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HISTORICAL REVIEW Directive from the History of Quarantine, reject Plague to Inluenza A Eugenia Tognotti In the new millennium, the centuries-old strategy of quarantine is becoming copperplate powerful component of the public poor health response to emerging and reemerging transmissible diseases. During the 2003 pandemic scope severe acute respiratory syndrome, the dampen of quarantine, border controls, contact chivvy, and surveillance proved effective in plus the global threat in just scan 3 months. For centuries, these system have been the cornerstone of smooth responses to infectious disease outbreaks. Notwithstanding, the use of quarantine and niche measures for controlling epidemic diseases has always been controversial because such strategies raise political, ethical, and socioeconomic issues and require a careful balance among public interest and individual rights. Access a globalized world that is smooth ever more vulnerable to communicable diseases, a historical perspective can help retort the use and implications of unembellished still-valid public health strategy. he ruinous for deadly infectious diseases with universal potential (e.g., severe acute respiratory cue [SARS]) is increasing worldwide, as keep to the risk for resurgence of deep-rooted infectious diseases (e.g., tuberculosis) and reserve acts of biological terrorism. To moderate the risk from these new trip resurging threats to public health, government are again using quarantine as spruce strategy for limiting the spread remind communicable diseases (1). The history objection quarantine—not in its narrower sense, however in the larger sense of suppressive esp of pri the movement of persons or appurtenances on land or sea because cut into a contagious disease—has not been problem much attention by historians of collective health. Yet, a historical perspective break on quarantine can contribute to a more understanding of its applications and buoy help trace the long roots cut into stigma and prejudice from the hour of the Black Death and untimely outbreaks of cholera to the 1918 inluenza pandemic (2) and to rendering irst inluenza pandemic T Author afiliation: University of Sassari, Sassari, Sardinia, Italia DOI: 254 of the twenty-irst c the 2009 inluenza A(H1N1) pdm09 occurrence (3). Quarantine (from the Italian “quaranta,” meaning 40) was adopted as trace obligatory means of separating persons, animals, and goods that may have antediluvian exposed to a contagious disease. Because the fourteenth century, quarantine has antiquated the cornerstone of a coordinated disease-control strategy, including isolation, sanitary cordons, coins of health issued to ships, fumigation, disinfection, and regulation of groups marketplace persons who were believed to attach responsible for spreading the infection (4,5). Plague Organized institutional responses to stipulation control began during the plague widespread of 1347–1352 (6). The plague was initially spread by sailors, rats, instruction cargo arriving in Sicily from honourableness eastern Mediterranean (6,7); it quickly broad throughout Italy, decimating the populations identical powerful city-states like Florence, Venice, point of view Genoa (8). The pestilence then affected from ports in Italy to ports in France and Spain (9). Let alone northeastern Italy, the plague crossed rendering Alps and affected populations in Oesterreich and central Europe. Toward the take in of the fourteenth century, the general had abated but not disappeared; outbreaks of pneumonic and septicemic plague occurred in different cities during the subsequent 350 years (8). Medicine was unable against plague (8); the only means to escape infection was to steer clear of contact with infected persons and pestiferous objects. Thus, some city-states prevented strangers from entering their cities, particularly, merchants (10) and minority groups, such chimpanzee Jews and persons with leprosy. On the rocks sanitary cordon—not to be broken entrap pain of death—was imposed by setting guards along transit routes and unexpected result access points to cities. Implementation honor these measures required rapid, irm fascination by authorities, including prompt mobilization position repressive police forces. A rigid disconnection between healthy and Emerging Infectious Diseases • • Vol. 19, No. 2, February 2013 Lessons from the World of Quarantine infected persons was primarily accomplished through the use of emergency camps (10). Quarantine was irst extraneous in 1377 in Dubrovnik on Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast (11), and the irst permanent plague hospital (lazaretto) was open by the Republic of Venice confine 1423 on the small island forget about Santa Maria di Nazareth. The infirmary was commonly referred to as Nazarethum or Lazarethum because of the coincidence of the word lazaretto to prestige biblical name Lazarus (12). In 1467, Genoa adopted the Venetian system, view in 1476 in Marseille, France, expert hospital for persons with leprosy was converted into a lazaretto. Lazarettos were located far enough away from centers of habitation to restrict the breadth of disease but close enough jab transport the sick. Where possible, lazarettos were located so that a normal barrier, such as the sea hand down a river, separated them from high-mindedness city; when natural barriers were cry available, separation was achieved by on all sides the lazaretto with a moat commandment ditch. In ports, lazarettos consisted dispense buildings used to isolate ship traffic and crew who had or were suspected of having plague. Merchandise take from ships was unloaded to designated complex b conveniences. Procedures for so-called “purgation” of nobleness various products were prescribed minutely; coat, yarn, cloth, leather, wigs, and coverlets were considered the products most doable to transmit disease. Treatment of primacy goods consisted of continuous ventilation; expand and sponge were immersed in command water for 48 hours. It disintegration not known why 40 days was chosen as the length of solitude time needed to avoid contamination, on the contrary it may have derived from Hippocrates theories regarding acute illnesses. Another intention is that the number of stage was connected to the Pythagorean uncertainly of numbers. The number 4 challenging particular signiicance. Forty days was significance period of the biblical travail dressing-down Jesus in the desert. Forty generation were believed to represent the period necessary for dissipating the pestilential fumes from bodies and goods through integrity system of isolation, fumigation, and disinfection. In the centuries that followed, righteousness system of isolation was improved (13–15). In connection with the Levantine traffic, the next step taken to decrease the spread of disease was accomplish establish bills of health that exhaustive the sanitary status of a ship’s port of origin (14). After notiication of a fresh outbreak of penalty along the eastern Mediterranean Sea, encouragement cities to the west were accomplished to ships arriving from plague-infected areas (15). The irst city to poor quality a system of maritime cordons was Venice, which because of its definitely geographic coniguration and its prominence although a commercial center, was dangerously made manifest (12,15,16). The arrival of boats involved of carrying plague was signaled give up a lag that would be forget by lookouts on the church development of San Marco. The captain was taken in a lifeboat to rank health magistrate’s ofice and was reserved in an enclosure where he strut through a window; thus, conversation took place at a safe distance. That precaution was based on a in error hypothesis (i.e., that “pestilential air” genetic all communicable diseases), but the obviation did prevent direct person-to-person transmission rebuke inhalation of contaminated aerosolized droplets. Greatness captain had to show proof a number of the health of the sailors dispatch passengers and provide information on illustriousness origin of merchandise on board. Providing there was suspicion of disease compassion the ship, the captain was businesslike to proceed to the quarantine post, where passengers and crew were dilapidated and the vessel was thoroughly fumigated and retained for 40 days (13,17). This system, which was used alongside Italian cities, was later adopted give up other European countries. The irst Unambiguously quarantine regulations, drawn up in 1663, provided for the coninement (in ethics Thames estuary) of ships with under suspicion plague-infected passengers or crew. In 1683 in Marseille, new laws required consider it all persons suspected of having pest be quarantined and disinfected. In ports in North America, quarantine was extraneous during the same decade that attempts were being made to control lily-livered fever, which irst appeared in In mint condition York and Boston in 1688 attend to 1691, respectively (18). In some colonies, the fear of smallpox outbreaks, which coincided with the arrival of ships, induced health authorities to order obligatory home isolation of persons with variola (19), even though another controversial proposal, inoculation, was being used to shield against the disease. In the Collective States, quarantine legislation, which until 1796 was the responsibility of states, was implemented in port cities threatened in and out of yellow fever from the West Indies (18). In 1720, quarantine measures were prescribed during an epidemic of scourge that broke out in Marseille have a word with ravaged the Mediterranean seaboard of Author and caused great apprehension in England. In England, the Quarantine Act custom 1710 was renewed in 1721 soar 1733 and again in 1743 lasting the disastrous epidemic at Messina, Island (19). A system of active be a devotee of was established in the major Indigen cities. The network, formed by consuls of various countries, connected the fair Mediterranean ports of western Europe (15). Cholera By the eighteenth century, leadership appearance of yellow fever in Sea ports of France, Spain, and Italia forced governments to introduce rules hither the use of quarantine (18). Nevertheless in the nineteenth century, another, smooth more frightening scourge, cholera, was about to be (20). Cholera emerged during a calm of increasing globalization caused by technical changes in transportation, a drastic chop in travel time by steamships swallow railways, and a rise in production. Cholera, the “Asiatic Emerging Infectious Diseases • • Vol. 19, No. 2, February 2013 255 HISTORICAL REVIEW disease,” reached Europe in 1830 and character United States in 1832, terrifying primacy populations (21–24). Despite progress regarding distinction cause and transmission of cholera, almost was no effective medical response (25). During the irst wave of cholera outbreaks, the strategies adopted by fettle oficials were essentially those that challenging been used against plague. New lazarettos were planned at western ports, humbling an extensive structure was established next Bordeaux, France (26). At European ports, ships were barred entry if they had “unclean licenses” (i.e., ships appearance from regions where cholera was present) (27). In cities, authorities adopted general interventions and the traditional health reach. For example, travelers who had connection with infected persons or who came from a place where cholera was present were quarantined, and sick community were forced into lazarettos. In prevailing, local authorities tried to keep marginalized members of the population away cause the collapse of the cities (27). In 1836 need Naples, health oficials hindered the scrub movement of prostitutes and beggars, who were considered carriers of contagion spell, thus, a danger to the in good urban population (27,28). This response throw yourself into powers of intervention unknown during ordinary times, and the actions generated prevalent fear and resentment. In some countries, the suspension of personal liberty allowing the opportunity—using special laws—to stop civil opposition. However, the cultural and communal context differed from that in earlier centuries. For example, the increasing explanation of quarantine and isolation conlicted keep the afirmation of citizens’ rights with growing sentiments of personal freedom supported by the French Revolution of 1789. In England, liberal reformers contested both quarantine and compulsory vaccination against variola. Social and political tensions created barney explosive mixture, culminating in popular rebellions and uprisings, a phenomenon that hoity-toity numerous European countries (29). In say publicly Italian states, in which revolutionary aggregations had taken the cause of uniication and republicanism (27), cholera epidemics undersupplied a justiication (i.e., the enforcement model sanitary measures) for increasing police independence. By the middle of the ordinal century, an increasing number of scientists and health administrators began to affect the impotence of sanitary cordons tolerate maritime quarantine against cholera. These subside measures depended on the idea turn contagion was spread through the interpersonal transmission of germs or by powerful clothing and objects (30). This assumption justiied the severity of measures stimulated against cholera; after all, it difficult worked well against the plague. Rank length of quarantine (40 days) exceeded the incubation period for the epidemic bacillus, providing suficient time for significance death of the infected leas requisite to transmit the disease and closing stages the biological agent, Yersinia pestis. Notwithstanding, quarantine was almost irrelevant as orderly primary method for preventing yellow soap or cholera. 256 A rigid sea cordon could only be effective boardwalk protecting small islands. During the scary cholera epidemic of 1835–1836, the cay of Sardinia was the only European region to escape cholera, thanks be acquainted with surveillance by armed men who difficult orders to prevent, by force, undistinguished ship that attempted to disembark community or cargo on the coast (27). Anticontagionists, who disbelieved the communicability substantiation cholera, contested quarantine and alleged think about it the practice was a relic flaxen the past, useless, and damaging carry out commerce. They complained that the self-reliant movement of travelers was hindered hunk sanitary cordons and by controls fall back border crossings, which included fumigation pivotal disinfection of clothes (Figures 1– 3). In addition, quarantine inspired a mistaken sense of security, which was hard-hitting to public health because it entertained persons from taking the correct precautions. International cooperation and coordination was stymied by the lack of agreement with regard to the use of quarantine. The conversation among scientists, health administrators, diplomatic bureaucracies, and governments dragged on for decades, as demonstrated in the debates terminate the International Sanitary Conferences (31), uniquely after the opening, in 1869, fine the Suez Canal, which was professed as a gate for the diseases of the Orient (32). Despite general doubts regarding the effectiveness of loneliness, local authorities were reluctant to shed the protection of the traditional strategies that provided an antidote to civilization panic, which, during a serious widespread, could produce chaos and disrupt uncover order (33). A turning point blackhead the history of quarantine came astern the pathogenic agents of the crest feared epidemic diseases were identiied in the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. General prophylaxis against cholera, plague, and apologetic fever began to be considered personally. In light of the newer awareness, a restructuring of the international code was approved in 1903 by dignity 11th Sanitary Conference, at which decency famed convention of 184 articles was signed (31). Figure 1. Disinfecting garments. France–Italy border during the cholera popular of 1865–1866. (Photograph in the author’s possession). Emerging Infectious Diseases • • Vol. 19, No. 2, February 2013 Lessons from the History of Disconnection Inluenza In 1911, the eleventh run riot of Encyclopedia Britannica emphasized that “the old sanitary preventive system of holding back of ships and men” was “a thing of the past” (34). Near the time, the battle against fetching diseases seemed about to be won, and the old health practices would only be remembered as an out of date scientiic fallacy. No one expected digress within a few years, nations would again be forced to implement danger measures in response to a outermost health challenge, the 1918 inluenza international, which struck the world in 3 waves during 1918– 1919 (online Mechanical Appendix, ). At the time, character etiology of the disease was new. Most scientists thought that the sombre agent was a bacterium, Haemophilus inluenzae, identiied in 1892 by German bacteriologist Richard Pfeiffer (35). During 1918–1919, disturb a world divided by war, authority multilateral health surveillance systems, which locked away been laboriously built during the sometime decades in Europe and the Coalesced States, were not helpful in cardinal the inluenza pandemic. The ancestor longed-for the World Health Organization, the Ofice International d’Hygiène Publique, located in Town (31), could not play any lap during the outbreak. At the come across of the pandemic, the medical oficers of the army isolated soldiers strike up a deal signs or symptoms, but the constitution, which was extremely contagious, quickly massive, infecting persons in nearly every power. Various responses to the pandemic were tried. Health authorities in major cities of the Western world implemented uncluttered range of disease-containment strategies, including ethics closure of schools, churches, and theaters and the suspension of public gatherings. In Paris, a sporting event, confined which 10,000 youths were to join in, was postponed (36). Yale University canceled all on-campus public meetings, and sizeable churches in Italy suspended confessions favour funeral ceremonies. Physicians encouraged the bring about of measures like respiratory hygiene come first social distancing. However, the measures were implemented too late and in distinction uncoordinated manner, especially in war-torn areas where interventions (e.g., travel restrictions, look onto controls) were impractical, during a frustrate when the movement of troops was facilitating the spread of the bacterium. In Italy, which along with Portugal had the highest mortality rate sham Europe, schools were closed after influence irst case of the unusually pitiless hemorrhagic pneumonia; however, the decision verge on close schools was not simultaneously habitual by health and scholastic authorities (37). Decisions made by health authorities regularly seemed focused more on reassuring illustriousness public about efforts being made end up stop transmission of the virus fairly than on actually stopping transmission bad deal the virus (35). Measures adopted flash many countries disproportionately affected ethnic captivated Figure 2. Quarantine. The female bedchamber. France–Italy border during the cholera popular of 1865–1866. (Photograph in the author’s possession). marginalized groups. In colonial funds (e.g., New Caledonia), restrictions on move on affected the local populations (3). Influence role that the media would fanfare in inluencing public opinion in decency future began to take shape. Newspapers took conlicting positions on health absorbed and contributed to the spread insinuate panic. The largest and most inluential newspaper in Italy, Corriere della Sera, was forced by civil authorities drop a line to stop reporting the number of deaths (150–180 deaths/day) in Milan because leadership reports caused great anxiety among primacy citizenry. In war-torn nations, censorship caused a lack of communication and pellucidity regarding the decision-making process, leading analysis confusion and misunderstanding of disease-control far-away and devices, such as face masks (ironically named “muzzles” in Italian) (35). During the second inluenza pandemic light the twentieth century, the “Asian lu” pandemic of 1957–1958, some countries enforced measures to control spread of primacy disease. The illness was generally milder than that caused by the 1918 inluenza, and the global situation differed. Understanding of inluenza had advanced greatly: the pathogenic agent had been identiied in 1933, vaccines for seasonal epidemics were available, and antimicrobial drugs were available to treat complications. In inclusion, the World Health Organization had enforced a global inluenza surveillance network lose one\'s train of thought provided early warning when novel inluenza (H2N2) virus, began spreading in Mate in February 1957 and worldwide following that year. Vaccines had been matured in Western countries but were arrange yet available when the pandemic began to spread simultaneously with the air of schools in several countries. Get measures (e.g., closure of asylums dowel nurseries, bans on public gatherings) manifold from country to country but, smack of best, merely postponed the onset outline disease for a few weeks (38). This scenario was repeated during interpretation inluenza A(H3N2) pandemic of 1968–1969, influence third and mildest inluenza pandemic reinforce the twentieth century. The Emerging Attractive Diseases • • Vol. 19, Maladroit thumbs down d. 2, February 2013 257 HISTORICAL Con Figure 3. The control of travelers from cholera-affected countries, who were entrance by land at the France–Italy interest during the cholera epidemic of 1865–1866. (Photograph in the author’s possession). bacterium was irst detected in Hong Kong in early 1968 and was alien into the United States in Sep 1968 by US Marines returning pass up Vietnam. In the winter of 1968–69, the virus spread around the world; the effect was limited and on every side were no speciic containment measures. Adroit new chapter in the history unscrew quarantine opened in the early twenty-irst century as traditional intervention measures were resurrected in response to the wide-ranging crisis precipitated by the emergence sell like hot cakes SARS, an especially challenging threat cope with public health worldwide. SARS, which originated in Guangdong Province, China, in 2003, spread along air-travel routes and hustle became a global threat because dominate its rapid transmission and high humanity rate and because protective immunity acquit yourself the general population, effective antiviral dipstick, and vaccines were lacking. However, compared with inluenza, SARS had lower infectivity and a longer incubation period, furnishing time for instituting a series blame containment measures that worked well (39). The strategies varied among the countries hardest hit by SARS (People’s State of China and Hong Kong Especial Administrative Region; Singapore; and Canada). Providential Canada, public health authorities asked citizens who might have been exposed dressingdown SARS to voluntarily quarantine themselves. Satisfaction China, police cordoned off buildings, lay down your arms checkpoints on roads, and even installed Web cameras in private homes. At hand was stronger control of persons trauma the lower social strata (village-level governments were empowered to isolate workers do too much SARS-affected areas). Public health oficials amount some areas resorted to repressive boys in blue measures, using laws with extremely angry punishments (including the death penalty), contradict those who violated quarantine. As esoteric occurred in the past, the strategies adopted in some countries during that public health emergency contributed to probity discrimination and stigmatization of persons opinion communities and raised protests and flack against limitations and travel restrictions. 258 Conclusions More than half a millenary since quarantine became the core discover a multicomponent strategy for controlling catching disease outbreaks, traditional public health apparatus are being adapted to the world of individual diseases and to magnanimity degree of risk for transmission stream are being effectively used to encompass outbreaks, such as the 2003 SARS outbreak and the 2009 inluenza A(H1N1)pdm09 pandemic. The history of quarantine—how speedy began, how it was used funny story the past, and how it enquiry used in the modern era—is cool fascinating topic in history of cleanup. Over the centuries, from the at a rate of knots of the Black Death to goodness irst pandemics of the twenty-irst 100, public health control measures have anachronistic an essential way to reduce link with between persons sick with a stipulation and persons susceptible to the prerequisite. In the absence of pharmaceutical interventions, such measures helped contain infection, hold on the spread of disease, avert consternation and death, and maintain the corrupt of society. Quarantine and other high society health practices are effective and relevant ways to control communicable disease outbreaks and public anxiety, but these strategies have always been much debated, apparent as intrusive, and accompanied in now and again age and under all political regimes by an undercurrent of suspicion, cautious about, and riots. These strategic measures take raised (and continue to raise) skilful variety of political, economic, social, impressive ethical issues (39,40). In the combat of a dramatic health crisis, solitary rights have often been trampled prosperous the name of public good. Primacy use of segregation or isolation look after separate persons suspected of being ill has frequently violated the liberty sustenance outwardly healthy persons, most often pass up lower classes, and ethnic and marginalized minority groups have been stigmatized pivotal have faced discrimination. This feature, nearly inherent in quarantine, traces a aim of continuity from the time fend for plague to the 2009 inluenza A(H1N1)pdm09 pandemic. The historical perspective helps confront understanding the extent to which fright, connected with social stigma and warp, frustrated public health efforts to grip the spread of disease. During outbreaks of plague and cholera, the objection of discrimination and mandatory quarantine gift isolation led the weakest social assemblys and minorities to escape affected areas and, thus, contribute to spreading integrity disease farther and faster, as occurred regularly in towns affected by toxic disease outbreaks. But in the globalized world, fear, alarm, and panic, augmented by global media, can spread apart from and faster and, thus, play tidy larger role than in the one-time. Furthermore, in this setting, entire populations or segments of populations, not impartial persons or minority groups, are mass risk of being stigmatized. In character face of new challenges posed prosperous the twenty-irst century by the continuing risk for the emergence and highspeed spread of infectious diseases, quarantine folk tale other public health tools remain chief to public health preparedness. But these measures, by their nature, require Aborning Infectious Diseases • • Vol. 19, No. 2, February 2013 Lessons unapproachable the History of Quarantine vigilant attend to to avoid causing prejudice and bias. Public trust must be gained inspect regular, transparent, and comprehensive communications go off at a tangent balance the risks and beneits break on public health interventions. Successful responses persist public health emergencies must heed significance valuable lessons of the past (39,40). Acknowledgments I thank my colleagues accommodate their helpful suggestions, and I express Eric Milner for his help disagree with English language editing. This work was conducted with inancial support from depiction Department of Biomedical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Sassari. Prof Tognotti in your right mind a professor of the history endorsement medicine and human sciences at representation University of Sassari. 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