Quarantines rarely used, effectiveness questioned

Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 01:00 in Health & Medicine

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Spanish flu pandemic a century ago prompted the last large-scale quarantines in this country. Now the Ebola outbreak is raising new questions about whether ordering quarantines is an effective way to fight deadly disease in the U.S....

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