Cordon sanitaire (medicine)
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A cordon sanitaire is the restriction of movement of people into or out of a defined geographic area, such as a community, region, or country. The term originally denoted a barrier used to stop the sp
A loosely enforced cordon sanitaire during a cholera epidemic in Romania, 1911
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kazakhstan, two cities (the only places which had infections at the time) were subdivided into zones, with roadblocks between them, and movement heavily restricted. 2020.
The Plague (novel)
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The Plague is a 1947 absurdist novel by Albert Camus. The plot centers around the French Algerian city of Oran as it combats a plague outbreak and is put under a city-wide quarantine. The novel presen
Cordon sanitaire (medicine)
…compensated fairly for economic and material losses, including salary. A cordon sanitaire was used as a plot device by Albert Camus in his 1947 novel The Plague. In the 1995 film Outbreak, an Ebola-like virus brought from Africa causes an epidemic in a small town in California, resulting in the United States…
Cover of the first edition
View of Oran in 1943
Sidewalk plaque with a quote from The Plague in New York City
Camus in 1945