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Incubation period

Incubation period is the time elapsed between exposure to a disease organism and when symptoms and signs are apparent. The period may be as short as hours to as long as thirty years in the case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (mad cow disease).

A person may be a carrier of a disease, such as strep throat, but not have any symptoms.



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