Plague - Venice dictates that travelers from the Levant in the eastern Mediterranean be isolated in a hospital for forty days

Time: 1403

Place: Italy

Details: After finding thirty days isolation to be too short, Venice dictates that travelers from the Levant in the eastern Mediterranean be isolated in a hospital for forty days, the quarantena or quaranta giorni, from which the term quarantine is derived.

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