Timeline of infection control
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1523 | Cordon sanitaire | "In 1523, during a plague outbreak in Birgu, the town was cordoned off by guards to prevent the disease from spreading to the rest of Malta" | ||
1666 | Cordon sanitaire | "n May 1666, the English village of Eyam famously imposed a cordon sanitaire on itself after an outbreak of the bubonic plague in the community." | ||
1708–1712 | Cordon sanitaire | "During the Great Northern War plague outbreak of 1708–1712, cordons sanitaires were established around affected towns like Stralsund and Königsberg; one was also established around the whole Duchy of Prussia and another one between Scania and the Danish isles along the Sound, with Saltholm as the central quarantine station" | ||
1770 | Cordon sanitaire | "In 1770 the Empress Maria Theresa set up a cordon sanitaire between Austria and the Ottoman Empire to prevent people and goods infected with plague from crossing the border. Cotton and wool were held in storehouses for weeks, with peasants paid to sleep on the bales and monitored to see if they showed signs of disease. " | ||
1793 | Cordon sanitaire | "During the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic, roads and bridges leading to the city were blocked off by soldiers from the local militia to prevent the illness from spreading. " | ||
1801 | The first hospital for infectious diseases is established in London.[1] | United Kingdom | ||
1813–1814 | "During the 1813–14 Malta plague epidemic, the main urban settlements of Malta (Valletta, Floriana and the Three Cities) and rural settlements with a high mortality rate (Birkirkara, Qormi, Żebbuġ and later Xagħra) were cordoned off by the military to prevent people from entering or leaving" | |||
1821 | Cordon sanitaire | "The term cordon sanitaire dates to 1821" | ||
1821 | Cordon sanitaire | "The 1821 yellow fever epidemic ravaged Barcelona and a cordon sanitaire was set up around the entire city of 150,000 people. Between 18,000 and 20,000 died in four months" | ||
1856 | Cordon sanitaire | "During the 1856 yellow fever epidemic a cordon sanitaire was implemented in several cities in the state of Georgia with moderate success" | ||
1869 | Cordon sanitaire | "In 1869, Adrien Proust (father of novelist Marcel Proust) proposed the use of an international cordon sanitaire to control the spread of cholera, which had emerged from India and was threatening Europe and Africa. Proust proposed that all ships bound for Europe from India and Southeast Asia be quarantined at Suez, however his ideas were not generally embraced" | ||
1876 | Robert Koch publishes his work on anthrax, for the first time conclusively proving that a bacterium could be a specific infectious agent.[1] | |||
1882 | Cordon sanitaire | "in 1882, in response to a virulent outbreak of yellow fever in Brownsville, Texas, and in northern Mexico, a cordon sanitaire was established 180 miles north of the city, terminating at the Rio Grande to the west and the Gulf of Mexico to the east." | ||
1886 | Louis Pasteur successfully immunizes a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog with spinal cord suspensions of inactivated rabies virus.[1] | |||
1888 | Cordon sanitaire | "In 1888, during a yellow fever epidemic, the city of Jacksonville, Florida, was surrounded by an armed cordon sanitaire by order of Governor Edward A. Perry" | ||
1899 | Cordon sanitaire | "In 1899 an outbreak of the plague in Honolulu was managed by a cordon sanitaire around the Chinatown district. In an attempt to control the infection, a barbed wire perimeter was created and people's belongings and homes were burned" | ||
1900 | By this time, there are 4,000 hospitals in the United States.[1] | United States | ||
1946 | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is founded.[1] | United States |
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- Infection control
- Antimicrobial
- Antimicrobial copper-alloy touch surfaces
- Antimicrobial properties of copper
- Medical uses of silver
- Cordon sanitaire
- Hospital-acquired infection
- Protective sequestration
- Buffer zone
- Isolation (health care)
- Social distancing
- Quarantine
- Leper colony
- Barrier nursing
- Cubicle curtain
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- Category:Antimicrobials
- Body substance isolation
- Disinfectant
- Category:Medical hygiene
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See also
- Timeline of epidemiology
- Timeline of hygiene
- Timeline of global health
- Timeline of bacteriology
- Timeline of antibiotics
- Timeline of virology