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CONTACT TRACING FOR
Ask about contacts.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Watch contacts
diseased #OF for symptoms of
patient disease during
DAYS incubation period.

If contact shows If contact shows
symptoms, keep away symptoms, keep away
from others, test, and # OF ? Missed from others, test, and
provide care. DAYS contact provide care.
After incubation period
with no symptoms,
diseased contact is not at risk of diseased
? ? ?
patient developing disease. patient
May spread disease
Ask about contacts. by new contacts
Ask about contacts.
Contact is not at risk
of spreading disease.
If no contacts,
no further spread
Watch contacts Repeat contact tracing of disease occurs.
# OF for symptoms during cycle until no new
DAYS incubation period. diseased patients.

Interviewing patients and tracking their contacts during a disease’s incubation period is an effective
way to contain the spread of disease. The incubation period for SARS is usually 2 to 7 days.

Lastly, the symptoms of SARS seem to appear before the person is
infectious. So SARS patients can be identified and isolated before they
release the SARS virus into the air with every cough. This is different
from many other diseases. For example, with the flu, people feel well
but are infectious before symptoms appear. They spread the flu virus a
full day or more before they realize they’re sick.

CASE STUDY: MONKEYPOX
People are not the only passengers on commercial planes. Nearly
one and a half billion live animals—including mammals, birds, fish,
reptiles, amphibians, and insects—reached the United States from
countries around the world between 2000 and 2006. And those are just
the legal imports. The Wildlife Conservation Society estimates that
illegal animal trade is a $6 billion global industry. They think that tens

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