All of the following diseases can be transmitted during the incubation period except
Correct Answer: Tuberculosis
Description: • Carrier: An infected person or animal that harbours a specific infectious agent ‘in the absence of discernible clinical disease’ and serves as a potential source of infection to others.
• Incubatory carriers: Shed infectious agent during the incubation period of the disease (esp. during last few days of IP).
For example: Measles, Mumps, Polio, Pertussis, Influenza, Diphtheria, Hepatitis B, HIV.
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