Quarantine (disambiguation)

Quarantine (disambiguation)

Quarantine is a medical term for the act of keeping an object in enforced isolation for a period of time to limit or prevent the spread of disease or infection.

Quarantine may also be:

*"Quarantine" (computer game), a video game for the 3DO and IBM PC systems
*"Quarantine" (2008 film), a 2008 horror film
*"Quarantine" (novel), a science fiction novel by Greg Egan
*"Quarantine" (Jim Crace novel), a 1997 novel
*"Quarantine" ("The Twilight Zone"), an episode of the television series
*Quarantine (record label), an English record label
*"Quarantine" ("Red Dwarf" episode), an episode of the British sci-fi comedy "Red Dwarf"
*"Quarantine" ("Stargate Atlantis"), a fourth season episode of the sci-fi series Stargate Atlantis
*Quarantine Speech, a 1937 speech by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
*Quarantine technology
*In grants of indulgences, the term Quarantines means an ecclesiastical penance of forty days


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