Posts Tagged ‘Incubation’

i just found out a little bit ago that my SIL who watches my son 4 days a week has tested positive for the swine flu. . . he hasn’t been with her since friday. . . i know i am posting this in the parenting section. . . . . . i have tried calling my pediatrician’s office but was on hold for like 20 minutes. . . . just curious as to if anyone here knows

I haven’t heard or seen anything that discusses this.

Interesting – a new strain of H1N1 influenza A viru.
I wonder what the incubation period is?
How many days BEFORE one has symptoms are they unaware and in public, and therefore spreading the virus.
For instance, I understand the HIV pathology shows that a person with HIV can be spreading the disease for 6 months before he/she can be diagnosed.
Generally, viruses are spreadable for a certain number of days before the patient KNOWS they have an illness. I wonder what that period is for this new strain of H1N1 influenza A virus.
It appears that one CSULB student is confined with an “apparent” swine flu and is being confined til proven positive or false. Meanwhile another student said that last Friday she had been in class and coughing all over the place.
Of course- as with any virus or illness, exposure doesnt mean you will get it.
Pasteur on his death bed said that he was wrong – the pathogens werent the main players, the “terrain” was.
Summing it up- the super healthy will ward it off because they have great terrain. (and thats what an Immune system is for!)
And in any flu passing through, thats why the very young and the very old are the usual ones to die.
Officially we are supposed to stay 6 feet away from each other- and wash our hands long enough to sing the entire Happy Birthday song.
I am probably living on the edge- I kissed my hubby on the mouth without brushing my teeth, Then we each went through a loud pantomime of coughing and hacking and spitting and kissed again. Monogamy does have its priviledges,
I am also thinking that there must be plenty of cases where people dont report their flu. If I was sick with a fever and flu-like symptoms, I would be too sick to sit in a doctors office to wait my turn. I wouldnt go to an ER because knowing I was in a weakened state, I wouldnt want to be in proximity of people even MORE sick.
So there have to be more cases around that dont get to the place of diagnosis or “counting”.
ANYWAY – whats the incubation/spreadable period before symptoms begin?
Anyone know?

After exposure to the Swine flu how long does it take for symptoms to appear?