In the two-and-a-half weeks since the county and city of Las Vegas started operating the homeless ISO-Q (isolation/quarantine) complex at Cashman, 112 people have been treated. The facility has a ...

Officials credit the use of both isolation (for those sick with SARS) and quarantine (for those exposed to the sick) with forestalling an even more severe epidemic. In April, President George W.

People who have symptoms, or who have suspected or known exposure to the virus, should practise self-quarantine or self-isolation. But what do the terms mean and how which should you do?

authorities must impose the toughest restrictions such as quarantine and isolation of the infected and their close contacts, and citywide lockdowns to contain those diseases. At the border ...