Incubation Times for Diseases
Infectious Disease Incubation Chart
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Disease |
Incubation Period |
Contagious Period |
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in Days |
in Days |
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Chicken Pox |
14-16 days |
2 days before rash until all sores have crusts |
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Fifth Disease (Erythema Infectiosum) |
10-14 days |
7 days before rash until rash begins |
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Hand Foot and Mouth Disease |
3-6 days |
Onset of mouth ulcers until fever gone |
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Impetigo |
2-5 days |
Onset of sores until 24 hours on antibiotic |
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Lice |
7 days |
Onset of itch until one treatment |
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Measles |
10-12 days |
4 days before rash until rash gone (7 days) |
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Roseola |
10-15 days |
Onset of fever until rash gone (2 days) |
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Rubella (German Measles) |
14-21 days |
7 days before rash until rash gone (4 days) |
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30 days |
Onset of rash until 1 treatment |
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Scarlet fever |
3-6 days |
Onset of fever or rash until 24 hours on antibiotics |
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Shingles-contagious for Chicken pox |
14-16 days |
Onset of rash until all sores are crusted (7 days) |
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Warts |
30-180 days |
minimally contagious |
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Bronchiolitis |
4-6 days |
Onset of cough until 7 days |
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Colds |
2-5 days |
Onset of runny nose until fever gone |
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Cold sores (herpes) |
2-12 days |
<6 years-stay home until sores are dry (5 days) |
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Coughs (viral) |
2-5 days |
Onset of cough until fever gone |
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Croup (viral) |
2-6 days |
Onset of cough until fever gone |
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Diphtheria |
2-5 days |
Onset of sore throat until 4 days on antibiotics |
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Influenza |
1-2 days |
Onset of cough until fever gone |
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Strep Sore throat |
2-5 days |
Onset of spre throat until 24 hours on antibiotics |
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Viral sore throat |
2-5 days |
Onset of sore throat until fever gone |
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Tuberculosis |
14-70 days |
Until 2 weeks on drugs(most childhood TB is not contagious |
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Whooping cough |
7-10 days |
Onset of runny nose until 5 days on antibiotics |
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Diarrheal, bacterial |
1-5 days |
<6 yrs. Stay home, > 6 yrs return if BM control and no fever |
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Diarrhea, giardia |
7-21 days |
same |
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Diarrhea, Traveler's |
1-6 days |
same |
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Diarrhea, viral (Rotavirus) |
1-3 days |
same |
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Hepatitis A |
14-50 days |
2 weeks before jaundice begins until jaundice resolves |
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Hepatitis B |
50-180 days |
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Pinworms |
21-28 days |
minimally infectious |
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Vomiting, viral |
2-5 days |
Until vomiting stops |
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Infectious mononucleosis |
30-50 days |
Onset of fever until fever gone (7 days) |
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Meningitis, bacterial |
2-10 days |
7 days before symptoms until 24 hours of IV antibiotics |
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Mumps |
16-18 days |
5 days before swelling until swelling gone (7 days) |
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Conjunctivitis, viral |
1-5 days |
Until redness resolves |
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Conjunctivitis, bacterial |
2-7 days |
Onset of discharge from eye until 1 day of antibiotics |