Isolation and Quarantine Flashcards

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What is isolation in the context of disease?

Isolation is keeping a person who is ill away from healthy people.

Quarantine is keeping people who may have been exposed to a disease apart from others, even if they feel well.

It reduces close contact, so pathogens from the ill person cannot easily pass to new hosts.

It keeps people who might be infected away from others. This stops them passing on the disease while we check if they are ill.

Quarantine may be used for people who have travelled from an area with an outbreak, or who have had close contact with an infected person.

The incubation period is the time between catching a pathogen and showing symptoms.

Quarantine should last at least as long as the incubation period, so anyone who is infected will show symptoms before mixing with others again.

Hospitals isolate patients with highly infectious diseases to protect other patients, staff, and visitors from infection.

Benefit: it slows the spread of disease. Drawback: people may feel lonely or be unable to work or go to school.

If people do not follow the rules, the pathogen can spread to many more people in the community.