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Coronavirus
spurs Hawaii
to take 'extreme action,' quarantine all arrivals to the state for 14 days
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“All
visitors and returning residents to Hawaii will be required to complete a mandatory 14-day
quarantine starting on Thursday in what the state's governor called an
"extreme action" on Saturday needed to fight the spread of the coronavirus.
Hawaii Gov. David Ige said the state's majority of COVID-19 cases so far are linked to travel, which makes
it "critical" to mitigate the spread of the virus by those arriving
from out of state.”
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Death in Hawaii: The Epidemics of
1848—1849
Some
infectious diseases are highly communicable and manifest them-selves with
varying degrees of intensity. Since the
Hawaiian people possessed no natural immunity to the bacterial and viral
organisms that were brought to the Islands in
the early 19th century, their resistance to foreign diseases was low. An
illness that was considered to be relatively mild could cause severe or fatal
consequences to the unprotected native population
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How Measles
Helped Destroy the Hawaiian Monarchy
“The
measles deaths of Hawaii’s
monarchs were tragic—and foretold another tragedy. When measles finally hit the
Hawaiian Islands in 1848, it began a long
sequence of epidemics that tore the kingdom apart.”
“a “plague”
that struck the island around 1803. Thought to have been yellow fever or a
similar disease, the epidemic resulted in up to 175,000 deaths, cutting the island’s
pre-contact population in half.”
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