Incubation period
Incubation period is the time from contact with infectious agents (bacteria or viruses) to onset of disease. Some diseases have short incubation periods, and some incubate for a long time. The latent period is the time after the incubation period, but before the [1]
Examples of diseases and incubation periods
Radiation sickness: 30 minutes to 3 days, depending on dose (higher dose, lower incubation period)
Common cold: 1 to 3 days
Flu: 1 to 4 days
COVID-19: 4 to 21 days
Smallpox: 6 to 16 days
Rabies: 1 week to 1 year (median 3 months)
HIV: 2 weeks to 1 year
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: 2 years to 70 years (Depending on PRNP 129)
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: 20 years to 55 years
Alzheimer's disease: 40 to 80 years