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cord-269389-x8i5x62v	Gensini, Gian Franco	The concept of quarantine in history: from plague to SARS	2004-04-12		.txt	text/plain	3195	158	51	Measures analogous to those employed against the plague have been adopted to fight against the disease termed the Great White Plague, i.e. tuberculosis, and in recent times various countries have set up official entities for the identification and control of infections. The concept of (modern) preventive quarantine is strictly related to plague and dates back to 1377, when the Rector of the seaport of Ragusa, today called Dubrovnik (Croatia), officially issued the socalled 'trentina' (an Italian word derived from 'trenta', that is, the number 30), a 30-day isolation period. 10 More recently (2003) the proposal of the constitution of a new European monitoring, regulatory and research institution was made, since the already available system of surveillance, set up in Europe to control the onset of epidemics, came up against an enormous challenge in the global emergency of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).	./cache/cord-269389-x8i5x62v.txt	./txt/cord-269389-x8i5x62v.txt