Synonyms for incubation period
in·cu·ba·tion pe·ri·od

Princeton's WordNet

1. incubation periodnoun

   the period between infection and the appearance of symptoms of the disease

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1. David Heymann:

   A border doesn't stop infections, people can cross borders while they're in the incubation period. So screening will pick out some, but it certainly won't get others, so what's important at screening is to tell people, not only' we're taking your temperature'. But giving them some kind of notification about where they go should they get a fever.

2. Steve Schmidt:

   The important thing is to quickly collect as many of the carcasses as possible, to prevent other birds from feeding on the infected birds, biologists observed about 20 eagles in the vicinity of some of the carcasses. Because of a delayed incubation period it is uncertain where these eagles might be located, if and when the avian cholera affects them.

3. Wu Minzhou:

   Because there's an ... incubation period at play here, if they head out, for example, to cities in the north of China then it's highly possible they will infect those areas too.

4. The Texas Republican:

   Given that the interaction was 10 days ago, that the average incubation period is 5-6 days, that the interaction was for less than a minute, and I have no current symptoms, the medical authorities have advised me that the odds of transmission from the other individual to me were extremely low.

5. Will Humble:

   What I'd be focusing right now on is sounding the alarm to our hospital systems to get ready, because no matter what Will Humble do at this point, given where we are at the increase in cases, the exponential growth, taking into consideration the incubation period for this virus, we're going to go into surge capacity mode by the Fourth of July.