Quarantine

==Other uses==
U.S. President [[John F. Kennedy]] euphemistically referred to the U.S. Navy's interdiction of shipping en route to Cuba during the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] as a "quarantine" rather than a [[blockade]], because a quarantine is a legal act in peacetime, whereas a blockade is defined as an act of aggression under the [[U.N. Charter]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/oct22/kennedy-quarantines-cuba/|title=Kennedy 'Quarantines' Cuba|date=25 September 2014|website=National Geographic Society|language=en|access-date=20 November 2019}}</ref>

In computer science, "quarantining" describes putting files infected by [[computer virus]]es into a special directory, so as to eliminate the threat they pose, without irreversibly deleting them.<ref name="Mowbray2013">{{cite book |author=Thomas J. Mowbray |year=2013 |title=Cybersecurity: Managing Systems, Conducting Testing, and Investigating Intrusions |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iXOAAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA72 |publisher=Wiley |page=72 |isbn=978-1-118-84965-1 |quote=Both antivirus and anti-spyware programs either quarantine or remove the malicious file. A quarantined file is temporarily disabled, usually by moving it to a sandboxed directory. An administrator may restore it.}}</ref>

The Spanish term for quarantine, ''(la) cuarentena'', refers also to the period of [[postpartum confinement]] in which a new mother and her baby are sheltered from the outside world.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/04/new-mom-traditions-from-around-the-world-cuarentena-and-doing-the-month.html|title=New-mom traditions from around the world: Cuarentena and "doing the month."|last=Tuhus-Dubrow|first=Rebecca|date=12 April 2011|website=Slate Magazine|language=en|access-date=20 November 2019}}</ref>