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Isolation is the process in which people who are known to be ill with a dangerous, contagious disease are treated to prevent the disease from spreading. Quarantine is the process in which people who have been exposed to an infectious disease, but are not yet known to be ill, are kept separate from others and monitored.solation lasts for the period of time in which a disease is considered infectious. Quarantine lasts for the incubation period for the disease, after which officials can be certain that an individual is not infected.
Isolation and quarantine are public health practices used to stop or limit the spread of disease. Isolation is used to separate ill persons who have a communicable disease from those who are healthy.Isolation restricts the movement of ill persons to help stop the spread of certain diseases.uarantine is used to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill. These people may have been exposed to a disease and do not know it, or they may have the disease but do not show symptoms.