are you contagious within the incubation period of covid?

Question

Re Covid 19 I understand the incubation period of Covid 19 is up to 14 days. But how long is the contagious period? I have read one is contagious 2 days before showing symptoms. Is that true? Are you still contagious until symptom free?

Answer 1

COVID 19: Unfortunately, you can be contagious when pre-symptomatic. The incubation period is the time it takes to show signs of illness.

Answer 2

No: Since colds and the flu are generally spread through respiratory droplets (i.e. Coughing and sneezing), people are most contagious when they appear sick.

Answer 3

True: Most viral infections are contagious beginning a day or so before the onset of symptoms.

Answer 4

Yes: This is how the disease spreads. If we can prevent this transmission, the disease will be eradicated.

Answer 5

Yes: Tb patients with active disease (especially adults that are coughing) release TB bugs in droplets with their cough that can be inhaled by others around them. This can be especially risky for small children or elderly who are more prone to getting sick from it immediately. Once an adult has been treated for at least 2 months with correct medicines, they are less likely to be infectious to others.

Answer 6

Depends: Check with TB expert! with the right treatment usually not a problem after 48 hours.

Answer 7

When symptomatic: Virus is shed and transmitted in the respiratory secretions of the symptomatic patient (sneezing, fever, chilling, coughing).

Answer 8

Yes: Yes, but it has to be transmitted via sand fleas.

Answer 9

Leishmaniasis: Leishmaniasis is considered to be contagious between people. Generally the infectious agent may be transmitted by saliva, air, cough, fecal-oral route, surfaces, blood, needles, blood transfusions, sexual contact, mother to fetus, etc. Leishmaniasis, although infectious, is not a genetic disease. It is not caused by a defective or abnormal gene.

Answer 10

Sand flies: Leishmaniasis does not generally transmit from person-to-person but is acquired from the bite of an infected female sand fly in endemic area.

Answer 11

Depends: Infectious encephalitis caused by borelia, viruses (yellow fever, hemorrhagic fever viruses), rickettsiae are contagious, but often require the presence of a vector, usually a mosquito or a tick that will transfer the pathogen from the infected person to the healthy one.

Answer 12

Yes indeed?: Epidemics of encephalitis are being reported all over the world. Some of the more famous are the equine type and those associated with tics and fleas and flu. Many different infectious agents can get into the body and then into the brain. One of the worst is herpes that we all carry but can flare and go to the brain. Special tests are necessary to determine the type and the risk of contagion.

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