Question

Use your own words to explain incubation period and generation time and explain what is the significance for disease outbreak between the two to a person who does not know epidemiology?

Answer 1

Answer: The incubation period usually indicate the time period between the infection occurrence as well as the onset of the symptoms of disease. The generation time is a time duration from the occurance of the infection from the initial stage to the secondary stage.

The significance for disease outbreak between the two to a person who doesn't know epidemiology as the disease takes particular time to show it's symptoms. When the infection increases, the symptoms shows about the possible chances of disease becoming worse.