How long does it take for people to get sick?!
Question: How long does it take for people to get sick?
What about for children? Ive seen 1 child be sick and a whole preschool classroom be infected in less than a week?
Any thoughts?
Answers:
It depends what germs you are referring to, have a look at:
"Incubation period is the time elapsed between exposure to a pathogenic organism, (a chemical or radiation), and when symptoms and signs are first apparent. The period may be as short as minutes to as long as thirty years in the case of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubation_…
"Definition:
The incubation period is the amount of time between infection with a virus or bacteria to the start of symptoms. The incubation periods of several diseases are given below:
* Rocky Mountain spotted fever - 2-14 days
* Smallpox - 12 days
* Common cold - 2-5 days
* Measles - 8-12 days
* Chicken pox - 14-16 days
* Erythema infectiosum (Fifth Disease) - 13-18 days
* Roseola - 9-10 days
* Rubella (German measles) - 14-21 days
* Influenza - 1-2 days"
http://dermatology.about.com/cs/infectio…
I believe it also depend on what type of germs it is and how strong or weak the person immune system is.
i would guess a week
idk a week i guess