incubation

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Will we start to see evidence the efforts to contain the spread are working, even though the long incubation period means it will take some time before anyone will declare this is over?

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

"Part of the difficulty lies in reconstructing oviraptor incubation realistically," said Su.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026

As the prolonged incubation of the disease made it difficult to track and contain, officials quickly turned to vaccination, the researcher said.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

Depending on the species of vulture we're talking about, incubation ranges from 50 days to almost two months.

From Salon • May 11, 2025

As to whether their blood would glow tomorrow or the next day or the day after that, only time would tell, but he and Geisbert were climbing out of the incubation period.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston