More than 7,000 people have been put into quarantine at home for 10 days over the last month around Toronto.
While the lumpen and clumsy have been awarded citizenship, the beautiful of face, heart and mind, carriers of what is known as "radiance sickness", are put into quarantine, a polite way of saying that they are killed.
"We systematically went from village to village and if someone was ill they would be put into quarantine," says Piot. "We would also quarantine anyone in direct contact with those infected and we would ensure everyone knew how to correctly bury those who had died from the virus".
And in neighboring New Jersey, a nurse who returned from helping Ebola patients in Africa was put into quarantine, even though she doesn't have the disease.
In November the company worked out a relief package with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in which the most toxic of its swap contracts were put into a kind of quarantine, so they could no longer hurt its balance sheet.
By that time the causative agent had been identified as CPXV and quarantine measures were put into place to prevent further spread to other animals.
The descriptions were put into a scheme.
Mr Labaz, Sirte's council leader, says, "They loved Qaddafi here and people cry, as everyone does when you lose a loved one, but they will forget".Notable figures from the old regime will be put into political quarantine for five or ten years, except for a handful who switched sides early in the revolution.
This protocol advised that contacts should be located rapidly and interviewed, have a nasopharyngeal swab if respiratory symptoms were present, be given a course of oseltamivir (this was a five day course regardless of symptoms), and be put into home isolation or quarantine for 72 hours from the start of oseltamivir treatment.
Early and accurate reporting is crucial so that control measures like culling and farm quarantines can be put into effect.
