Zambian holiday fever. (Disease incubation periods):
All false
A traveller who develops a fever in the tropics is likely to be suffering from an infectious disease. A neoplastic cause of fever, such as Hodgkin's disease, is possible but not likely.
Table 13.1
| Infections with incubations of less than 10 days |
| dengue fever |
| yellow fever |
| rickettsial infections |
| plague |
falciparum malaria - the incubation period usually quoted for falciparum is 10-14 days. Occasionally it may be as short as 8 days.
|
Table 13.2
| Infections with intermediate incubation periods (10-21 days) |
| malaria |
| African trypanosomiasis |
| enteric fever (7-21 days) |
| brucellosis |
| hepatitis A (2-6 weeks) |
Table 13.3
| Infections with long incubation periods |
| filariasis |
| leishmaniasis |
| amoebic liver abscess |
| hepatitis B (45-160 days) |
