Venice establishes the world's first institutionalized system of quarantine, giving a council ... The act comes in the midst of the Black Death, a plague epidemic that eventually takes the lives ...

WASHINGTON, March 9. -- The authorities of the Treasury Department are satisfied that the bubonic plague exists in California and that the situation is critical. There have been six deaths there ...

From Pompeii on eruption day, the Black Plague, life as a coal miner in the ... collecting medicine and walking into the quarantine zone to visit your sick mother. But despite going to church ...

Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe ... and the first step taken was to quarantine Chinatown. The Chinese objected, and so did the business community.

Its first big test was the bubonic or “Great Black” plague outbreak late ... the Spanish flu outbreak on Maui. The bubonic plague quarantine was lifted in April 1900. Maui suffered isolated ...

The worst plague in history was the Black Death, which may have killed up to ... knowledge – they had never heard of antibiotics or quarantine. This meant that the plague killed around 90 ...