Explain The Four Stages Of Communicable Illness

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1. List and describe the four stages of a communicable illness. Ch. 5 The four stages of a communicable illness are incubation, prodromal, acute, and convalescence. Incubation state is the collapse of time between contact to a pathogen and the appearance of the first the signs or symptoms of illness. The prodromal stage begins when a young child experiences the first nonspecific signs of infection and ends with the appearance of symptoms characteristic of a particular communicable illness Acute stage is when a young child is definitely sick and highly contagious. Convalescence stage or recovery stage is when the symptoms gradually disappear, children begin to feel better, and they are no longer considered to be contagious. 2. What are some