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Health officials turning to quarantines to battle outbreaks.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Seth Borenstein
ATLANTA _ The best hope for stopping epidemics of infectious diseases, public health experts said Monday, may be a long-neglected 14th-century tool: Quarantining people.
When modern medicine couldn't come up with antibiotics, vaccines and effective treatments to combat the contagious respiratory disease SARS last year, they noted, Canada and Asia dusted off quarantine laws unused for decades, if ever, and isolated more than 200,000 people.
And that stopped the disease.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome, which was contained last June, would've been far more deadly without effective quarantines, veterans of the ...
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