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 ...

Most theories suggest that it was the imposition of quarantine measures that ensured the end of the Black Death. People would remain in their homes and only leave when it was necessary ...

The pandemic of bubonic plague—later dubbed the Black Death—raged through Europe from 1347 to 1351 and wiped out between one-third and two-thirds of the entire population. But it wasn’t all ...

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.