Meriam Seth Senior Quarantine Officer, Department of Quarantine

What about quarantine?

Is he in quarantine?

8150 Testing, inspection and quarantine requirements

The body should be put in strict quarantine.

During the SARS epidemic in Beijing quarantine did seem to help.

We have no uniform policies regarding quarantine across the United States.

That? Oh, that's a quarantine flag, warning that there's black death aboard.

I'm sure it's the same one we scared off with the quarantine flag.

Cuba implemented a program of mandatory testing and quarantine early in the AIDS epidemic.

I wonder if a long quarantine wouldn't satisfy 'em. Think they'd agree to that?

This is an avian quarantine facility where all imported birds coming into America are required to undergo a 30 day quarantine, where they are tested for diseases including Exotic Newcastle Disease and Avian Influenza.

This is an avian quarantine facility where all imported birds coming into America are required to undergo a 30 day quarantine, where they are tested for diseases including Exotic Newcastle Disease and Avian Influenza.

Methyl bromide for quarantine and pre shipment uses was excluded from the proposed reduction schedule.

He passed quarantine laws to protect the people the first ever such laws in North America.

Quarantine, a state, period, or place of strict isolation meant to prevent the spread of disease.

From the Italian word quaranta, meaning forty, this period of stasis was given the name quarantine.

Some 54 out of 188 Parties had now reported the requested quarantine and preshipment data, and major quarantine and preshipment uses had been reported for treatment of timber and wooden materials, as well as for grain and cereals.

Night emergencies, chronic diseases, poisoning and quarantine arrangements for diseases like leprosy were simply not attended to.

Once I am cleared (at 10 p.m.), I leave the quarantine building and go to look for a hotel.

The Commission also encouraged countries to liaise with appropriate research organizations and stress the importance and urgency of developing alternatives for quarantine purposes.

Particular emphasis is placed on mobilizing and strengthening national plant protection and quarantine capabilities and supporting the preparation of national policies and plans.

And by the mid 1600s, the word quarantine was being used to describe any place, period, or state of isolation, plague related or not.

Report by the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel on the methyl bromide quarantine and preshipment data submitted by the Parties, pursuant to decision XVI 10

Second, airports in Senegal, Guinea and Canada were closed to Soviet aircraft bound for Havana in 1962 in response to the United States led quarantine of Cuba.

Annex 9 (Facilitation) to the Convention on International Civil Aviation contains a number of relevant provisions with respect to quarantine issues referred to in this priority area.

It also requested Parties that had not yet done so to submit detailed quarantine and pre shipment data to the Panel before 31 March 2005, using the best available data.

A first report covered approximately 17 per cent of total reported 2002 quarantine and preshipment uses for 10 Parties reporting and for Parties that had responded to a 2003 consultants survey.

With regard to the claimed losses in livestock and poultry production and quarantine and vaccination costs, the Panel finds that Iran has not provided sufficient information to demonstrate losses and costs.

(h) A staff member shall immediately notify a United Nations medical officer of any case of contagious disease occurring in his or her household or of any quarantine order affecting the household.

A draft quota system for non quarantine and pre shipment methyl bromide imports had been prepared and presented to the technical working group, and was expected to be implemented by January 2006.

108. With respect to quarantine issues referred to in chapter XII of the Programme of Action, Annex 9 (Facilitation) to the Convention on International Civil Aviation 6 contains a number of relevant provisions.

FAO stated that the FAO Conference had endorsed the Principles of Plant Quarantine as Related to International Trade and adopted the International Code of Conduct for Plant Germplasm Collecting and Transfer in November 1993.

A quarantine and pre shipment task force has now been established with 12 members from the following Parties Argentina, Australia, China, Croatia, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand and the United States of America.

The General Administration of Quality and Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine conducted a survey and reported that nearly one fifth of all products made in China for domestic use did not measure up to safety and quality standards.

The Commission agreed that the secretariats should cooperate, as appropriate, to coordinate work on this issue and encouraged countries to cooperate with appropriate research organizations and stress the importance and urgency of developing alternatives for quarantine purposes.

78. FAO apos s project on training to improve plant quarantine decision making was implemented in association with South Pacific countries to adapt and distribute a plant protection database and provide training and resources for its use.

Relevant Federal legislation includes the Quarantine Act 1908, the Crimes Act (Biological Weapons)1976, the Chemical Weapons (Prohibition) Act 1994, the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Prevention of Proliferation) Act 1995, the Criminal Code, and the Customs Act 1901.

In its 2003 report, the Panel and its Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee reported that individual tonnages for uses of methyl bromide for quarantine and pre shipment treatment of particular commodities were not available on a worldwide basis.

In its 2003 report, the Panel and its Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee reported that individual tonnages for uses of methyl bromide for quarantine and pre shipment treatment of particular commodities were not available on a worldwide basis.

But the tiny number of Ebola cases in rich countries and the ensuing panic inducing headlines and quarantine measures have brought home the global nature of infectious disease today. Mass travel has made effective containment of epidemics extremely difficult.

f. For China's legal enforcement measures with regard to importing biological weapons and related materials, see the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Quarantine of Animals and Plants Brought Into or Taken Out of Chinese Territory.

UNOTIL police advisers also helped to finalize an inter government agency cooperation agreement, by which the immigration, customs and quarantine departments may assist the under resourced Marine Unit in the task of conducting maritime surveillance of 700 km of coastal borders.

77. Where epidemics, especially cholera, are concerned, political and economic considerations frequently move to the forefront and result in measures such as quarantine, cordon sanitaire, and other restrictions of movement and economic activity being instituted over the objections of technical advisers.

In response to a request for an explanation, the Party had explained that the consumption had been wrongly reported, and had been in fact for pre shipment and quarantine measures Panama had had no methyl bromide consumption in 2004 for controlled uses.