We will begin by stating that the need for isolation is also found in the Old Testament. This is because many times in history it was necessary to isolate groups of people in order to stop the transmission of diseases. The report says seven days of isolation and another seven if the disease did not go away from the infected person.
The first recorded pandemic was in the 5th century BC. Specifically in 430 BC. the plague struck Athens and left behind many deaths. Unfortunately there was a second and third wave of the disease in the city in 428 and 426 respectively.
A pandemic appeared in the Byzantine Empire in 541 AD.
Then came the black plague during the Middle Ages. It was then that the word quarantine was coined in Italy, meaning ’40 days’ from the Latin quaranta giorni. This was the period of mandatory isolation of the crews of the ships that docked in Venice.
Another disease that existed during the Middle Ages was in a village in England where a tailor who traded fabrics, transported fleas to them. Then everyone isolated themselves and received food at the entrance of the village. They paid with coins that cleaned with vinegar. As a result, 1/3 of the village died.
The other isolation name that existed was trentino used in 1347 AD. in the Republic of Ragusa. This lasted 30 days.
Usually the onset of pandemics in a country was in its ports where foreigners came to migrate, work or sell goods.
In the 17th century the plague appeared in the British Empire, where it was forced to stop public spectacles for 14 years.
The effectiveness of the isolation was seen in Samoa when immediate measures were taken to prevent the transmission of the Spanish flu. That is why there was no case. In Smyrna for the same reason the ships that arrived were moored at other docks and the crews were quarantined. The same happened in Thessaly.
Another noteworthy fact is that astronauts are also quarantined as soon as they return from space to avoid the transmission of germs that may have been transmitted.
[Source: http://www.sansimera.gr]
