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The time between exposure and onset of clinical signs or symptoms
Disease | Incubation periods |
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Scarlet fever | 1-4d |
Arbovirus encephalitis | 3-14d |
Rocky Mountain spotted fever | 2-14d |
Leptospirosis | 7-12d |
SARS | < 10 days |
Polio | 7-14 d |
Pertussis | 7-14d |
Overseas | |
Plasmodium/Falciparum Malaria | 6-30d Most < 2 months |
Vivax Malaria | 8-30 d Most < 2 months |
Dengue | 4-8d less than 2 weeks |
Smallpox | 7-17d |
Tetanus | 7-21d |
Ebola | 2-21d |
Typhoid | 3-21d |
Hepatitis A | 2-6 w |
Hepatitis B | 6 w-6m |
Common Viral | |
Chicken pox | 14-16d |
Mumps | 14-18d |
Rubella | 14-21d |
Infectious mono | 28-42d |
Common cold | 1-5d |
Influenza | 1-4d |
Measles | 9-12d |
Sexually transmitted | |
Syphilis | 6-12 w |
Genital Herpes | 2-14d |
Gonorrhoea | 3-4d |
HIV | 10-28d (2-6 weeks) |
Gastroenteritis | |
Norovirus | 1-3d |
Staph aureus | 1-8h |
Shigella | 12h-7d |
Campylobacter | 2-8d |
E coli O157:h7 | 1-10d |
Listeria | 3-20d |
Cholera | 3h-3d |