Venice establishes the world's first institutionalized system of quarantine, giving a council ... The act comes in the midst of the Black Death, a plague epidemic that eventually takes the lives ...

Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe ... and the first step taken was to quarantine Chinatown. The Chinese objected, and so did the business community.

The worst plague in history was the Black Death, which may have killed up to ... knowledge – they had never heard of antibiotics or quarantine. This meant that the plague killed around 90 ...