Due to recent advances in Health care system, quarantine has been replaced nowadays by:: (A) Active surveillance, (B) Passive surveillance, (C) Sentinel surveillance, (D) Isolation
Answer is A. Quarantine has been replaced with active surveillance. Quarantine is the restriction of activities of apparently healthy persons who have been exposed to a case of communicable disease during its period of communicability, for the duration of it's maximum incubation period. Active surveillance is the continuous scrutiny of all aspects of a disease and application of information to heath promotion and to disease prevention and control.