QUARANTINE FLAGS

QUARANTINES HAVE BEEN USED FOR CENTURIES TO LIMIT THE SPREAD OF CONTAGION.

IN FACT, THERE ARE ONLY TWO WAYS TO LIMIT THE SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES FOR WHICH THERE IS NO MEDICAL TREATMENT, NO ANTIBIOTIC OR NO ANTIVIRAL OR NO VACCINE:

SANITATION AND QUARANTINE.

THERE'S EVEN BEEN A QUARANTINE FLAG FOR SHIPS FOR CENTURIES: WIKI:

In International maritime signal flags, plain yellow, green, and even black flags have been used to symbolize disease in both ships and ports, with the color yellow having a longer historical precedent, as a color of marking for houses of infection, previous to its use as a maritime marking color for disease.

The present flag used for the purpose is the "Lima" (L) flag, which is a mixture of yellow and black flags previously used. It is sometimes called the "yellow jack" but this was also a name for yellow fever, which probably derives its common name from the flag, not the color of the victims (cholera ships also used a yellow flag).[1]

PERHAPS WE COULD USE A NEW FLAG FOR EBOLA.

MAYBE THIS: