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If exposed to flu... Incubation?
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Serendipity
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If exposed to flu... Incubation?
How long would you would say you are in the clear if exposed to someone who had the flu (exposed Sunday, person didnt have symptoms that day) person started this morning with symptoms.
Today is Wednesdayb
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Posted 1/22/14 7:42 PM  |
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Re: If exposed to flu... Incubation?
I don't know for sure, but I'd say you should be clear after a week.
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| Posted 1/22/14 7:49 PM |
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Lillykat
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Re: If exposed to flu... Incubation?
Wait you saw them Sunday and they started symptoms on Wednesday morning?
If so you are probably ok. The general rule is a person is often contagious 24 hours before 1st symptoms. So if they got sick today...Sunday they were probably fine. But if you are concerned
According to the cdc website...
The typical incubation period for influenza is 1—4 days (average: 2 days). Adults shed influenza virus from the day before symptoms begin through 5—10 days after illness onset. However, the amount of virus shed, and presumably infectivity, decreases rapidly by 3—5 days after onset in an experimental human infection model. Young children also might shed virus several days before illness onset, and children can be infectious for 10 or more days after onset of symptoms. Severely immunocompromised persons can shed virus for weeks or months.
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| Posted 1/22/14 8:25 PM |
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Serendipity
Summer!
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Re: If exposed to flu... Incubation?
Posted by Lillykat
Wait you saw them Sunday and they started symptoms on Wednesday morning?
If so you are probably ok. The general rule is a person is often contagious 24 hours before 1st symptoms. So if they got sick today...Sunday they were probably fine. But if you are concerned
According to the cdc website...
The typical incubation period for influenza is 1—4 days (average: 2 days). Adults shed influenza virus from the day before symptoms begin through 5—10 days after illness onset. However, the amount of virus shed, and presumably infectivity, decreases rapidly by 3—5 days after onset in an experimental human infection model. Young children also might shed virus several days before illness onset, and children can be infectious for 10 or more days after onset of symptoms. Severely immunocompromised persons can shed virus for weeks or months.
Yup. We were with them on Sunday. The child was fine. He came down with symptoms / flu early this morning.
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| Posted 1/22/14 8:47 PM |
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