Read this passage from "The Masque of the Red Death." What is the meaning of the phrase "pest ban"?
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The "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was it
and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with
upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and fro
And the whole seizure, progress and termination of the disease, were the incidents of half an hour.

Sign of contamination

Terror of the unknown

Fatal illness

Quickness of death