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Quarantine and the problem of AIDS.

Milbank Q. 1986;64 Suppl 1:97-117. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/87064115
Musto DF

Abstract: Through history, quarantine has been a response not only to the mode of disease transmission, but also to popular demands for a boundary between the kind of people so diseased and the respectable people who hope to remain healthy. Efforts to control epidemics--leprosy, cholera, tuberculosis, drug addiction--through quarantine of large numbers of people have never been successful. AIDS patients share characteristics often invoked in defense of quarantine; they do have reason to fear anachronistic and unenlightened outrage.
Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*PREVENTION & CONTROL Cholera/PREVENTION & CONTROL Emigration and Immigration Human Leprosy/PREVENTION & CONTROL Minority Groups *Quarantine Substance Dependence Tuberculosis/PREVENTION & CONTROL United States Yellow Fever/PREVENTION & CONTROL JOURNAL ARTICLE

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