Quarantine: It's catching!

Children who catch the common infectious illnesses must be kept away from others to prevent them spreading, say doctors at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital What is quarantine? A couple of generations ago, families and those in contact with children with infectious diseases were strictly quarantined. Nowadays it is just the infected child that is excluded from other children. Many infections can now be prevented by immunisation, but if a child contracts a highly infectious...