Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Admitting of quarantine; amenable to or controlled by quarantine.
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- adjective Subject to
quarantine ; underquarantine .
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Examples
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Last night, Health Minister Nicola Roxon announced new measures; swine flu is to be listed as a quarantinable disease which means the Chief Medical Officer can, if necessary, detain people, and quarantine them, in their own home.
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And we have added influenza viruses with pandemic potential to the list of quarantinable diseases.
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Screw having the virus nail a small and fundamentally quarantinable town in Northern California.
Pajiba 2009
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The Australian government has listed H1N1 Influenza A as a quarantinable disease
Sydney Indymedia - Comments kim33 2009
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