I was reading a murder mystery and part of it involves a Quarantine. Now in this book they think it’s Typhoid and the health dept doctor says “You have to burn all the food”
Now since the entire place, it takes place in a school for teens, was exposed to the person who has typhoid, (It turns out it wasn’t typhoid though someone was posioning them), they said they have to quarantine the place and burn the food and bleach the bedding (it was one of those schools where kids live, a boarding school)
My question is what are the rules for a quarantine, seems stupid to burn all the food. I mean if everyone was already (supposedly) exposed, what’s the difference and wouldn’t cooking the meat and stuff kill the typhoid?