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Assess the role of quarantine in controlling the spread of diseases in Australia. (7 marks)
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Food was a crucial part of culture in both Pompeii and Herculaneum and was thus prepared and served in different ways. Within Pompeii food was prepared in a more commercialised way due to its prominence as a holiday destination. Thermopolia found in the forum suggests bread and snacks were served around Pompeii to save people making it themselves. The macellum within the forum provided fresh vegetables, fruit and meat in order for people to prepare their own food in a stone oven in their home. The bakery of stephanus also highlights the way in which a staple; bread was prepared. Several grain grinders and ovens were found within the bakery suggesting dough was made and baked. A variety of hotels such as the hotel of the muse also served people a variety of foods mainly bread as seen by carbonised loaves. Due to incomplete excavation at Herculaneum not much has been revealed in terms of food preparation. Fishing equipment found at a boat shed suggests seafood was a crucial part of the diet and was probably cooked or eaten raw. It has also been suggested that the town may of had some thermopolia for the residents convenience.
Quarantine within Australia successfully manages to prevent disease entering the country and also preventing the spread of disease across boarders.
*Controlling spread:
- if a disease is located within an area of australia quarantine sets up perimeters to ensure the disease does not spread from this location.
- For example in the combat against fruit fly measures have been implemented to ensure fruit does not move across state boarders. Due to this precaution NSW, Tasmania and the Northern Territory do not have the damaging pest.
-Thus it is clear quarantine successfully ensures diseases/ pests do not spread in between states by setting up strict perimeters and surveillance
*Preventing diseases from entering Australia:
- quarantine successfully monitors imports and exports as well as tourists/ migrants to ensure disease from across the world does not enter australia
- some of these measures include destroying foreign animal and plant products if they do not comply with the law or keeping them in isolation. Heat scanners have also been employed to detect any tourists/ migrants with a disease so that appropriate action may be taken.
- due to these precautions diseases such as foot and mouth disease and mad cow disease have not been identified within australia.
- thus quarantine through its strict measures successfully ensures foreign diseases do not enter the country
Therefore in regards to its roles quarantine is successful in limiting the spread of disease within australia and preventing new diseases from entering the country