The word quarantine comes from the Latin "quadraginta", which means four times ten and refers to a religious origin. His medical sense was born with the established isolation of 40 days suffered by people suspected of carrying the plague during the epidemic that broke out in Venice in 1,348. 40 was a very biblical number , it could be said chosen and imposed by the Lord. A ceremonial figure, closely linked to important episodes of the Holy Book. Jesus fasted 40 days in the wilderness
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