Ebola

===Isolation===
Isolation refers to separating those who are sick from those who are not. [[Quarantine]] refers to separating those who may have been exposed to a disease until they either show signs of the disease or are no longer at risk.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 August 2014 |title=About Quarantine and Isolation |url=https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/quarantineisolation.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020041517/https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/quarantineisolation.html |archive-date=20 October 2014 |access-date=26 October 2014 |publisher=[[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC)}}</ref> Quarantine, also known as enforced isolation, is usually effective in decreasing spread.<ref>{{Cite book | vauthors = Sompayrac L |url=https://archive.org/details/howpathogenicvir0000somp |title=How pathogenic viruses work |date=2002 |publisher=Jones and Bartlett Publishers |isbn=978-0763720827 |edition=3rd |location=Boston |page=[https://archive.org/details/howpathogenicvir0000somp/page/87 87] |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref name="pmid16597410">{{Cite journal |vauthors = Alazard-Dany N, Ottmann Terrangle M, Volchkov V |date=April 2006 |title=[Ebola and Marburg viruses: the humans strike back] |url=https://www.medecinesciences.org/articles/medsci/pdf/2006/05/medsci2006224p405.pdf |journal=Med Sci (Paris) |language=fr |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=405–10 |doi=10.1051/medsci/2006224405 |pmid=16597410 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Governments often quarantine areas where the disease is occurring or individuals who may transmit the disease outside of an initial area.<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 August 2014 |title=Ebola virus disease update – west Africa |url=https://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_08_19_ebola/en/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022110953/https://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_08_19_ebola/en/ |archive-date=22 October 2014 |access-date=26 October 2014 |publisher=[[World Health Organization]] (WHO)}}</ref> In the United States, the law allows quarantine of those infected with ebolaviruses.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IfpOtV-FAl4C&pg=PA209 |title=Koenig and Schultz's disaster medicine : comprehensive principles and practices |date=2009 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0521873673 | veditors = Koenig K, Schultz C |location=Cambridge |page=209 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160515175653/https://books.google.com/books?id=IfpOtV-FAl4C&pg=PA209 |archive-date=15 May 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=19 January 2017 |title=Control of Communicable Diseases |url=https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/19/2017-00615/control-of-communicable-diseases |access-date=13 August 2019 |website=[[Federal Register]]}}</ref>