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| Fever in a traveller
|Malaria Falciparum
|Malaria Non Falciparum
|Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers (VHF)
|Lassa fever
|Dengue
|Marburg virus disease
| AIDS HIV
| Yellow fever
| Ebola Virus
| Leptospirosis
| Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
|African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping sickness)
|American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease)
|Incubation Periods
| Notifiable Diseases UK
The time between exposure and onset of clinical signs or symptoms
Timings for Incubation periods
Disease Incubation periods 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
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