how long is mono contagious?
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Its only contagious as long as the person is running a fever. Once the fever has stopped its ok. Besides those with mono are quartined until they are no longer able to spread it. If he had it in January odds are you are safe.
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So long as you have been on antibiotics for a FULL 24 hours, you should no longer be contagious. However, your work may feel better if you stay home. I would contact your boss. Do you feel up to going to work? If you work in front of a computer or anything that you use your eyes heavily, you may want to consider staying home for a day.
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Its glandular fever and as far as i know, Ive never heard of deaths from mono. The only way i could imagine someone dying frm it is if they have a compromised immune system eg under intense chemo
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Infectious mononucleosis (often called simply "mono") is a common viral infection that causes fever, sore throat, and enlarged lymph nodes. The most common complaint is a sore throat. Mono is commonly caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, but other viruses, such as cytomegalovirus (CMV), can also cause mono. Mono is most frequently diagnosed in teenagers and young adults.\n\nThe illness generally goes away without medical help. However, it may last from weeks to months. Treatment is mainly to ease symptoms, usually at home, with plenty of rest and fluids.\n\nBy adulthood, 90-95% of men and women have been infected. Mono usually occurs in people aged 15-25 years. Mono is highly contagious. Not surprisingly, 1-3% of college students contract mono each year. Infection spreads through exposure to body fluids containing the virus. It is most often transmitted via saliva (hence the name "kissing disease"). However, mono can also be spread through blood and genital secretions.\n\nSerious complications rarely occur.
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it all depends on your immune system response and the type of virus you contract.  for example, when talking about the flu, if you contract the H1N1 strain chances are you won't even know it because the symptoms will be so minimal, but if you contract another strain like H3N2, you will get notice the symptoms and the rate of appearance of those symptoms will depend on how healthy your immune system is, but usually within hours to a couple days.
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Usually 48-72 hours after exposure the first symptoms appear.\nShort term immunity develops after you get over it, but you can still give it to others.
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well that could mean that the ebv virus is dormant in your system,meaning you already had it. The mono count will always be high. As far as the antibodies more tests can be done to determine if there is a problemwith the antibodies.
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It Would Depend, In Large Part, On Whether you had Mono (a Herpesvirus, EBV) Before (and May Have Seen it as Something Else or Never Realized you Were Sick).  I Think she was Contagious Well Before she had Signs, and Not Terribly Long After she had Signs.
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Hi, the incubation period for chicken pox to be infectious is prior to the rash and blisters developing. There is a small chance of being contagious with the fluid that is in the blister so is always better to stay away from people.\n\nThe stats are... if you havent been exposed to chicken pox before...and you visit someone that has active blisters...and lots (disseminated chicken pox).... you have an 85% chance of getting them yourself.\n\nChicken pox is both airborn transmission, and direct touch transmission.\n\nFrom a hospital standpoint, we isolate all people until the blisters have dried - this because of the small risk of transmission... to the many immunosuppressed people that are in hospital.\n\nIf someone is on medication for the blisters then the infectiousness is very minimal.\n\nI recommend anyone getting the vaccination. As an adult contracting chicken pox is life threatening
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Could be strep throat! \n\nLook at your tounsils- are they inflamed? Is there a foriegn substance coming from them?\n\nI had mono and strep throat all at one time- it was horrible.\n\nHope you feel better! Take Care...Danae
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It certainly has a deceiving name doesn't it?  Mono, meaning "one," you can only get it when there's "two."   And you can it get way more than once.  Be thankful you didn't get the "ninja," which can be defined as, "a complete and total combination of all known and Unknown STD's in the world"
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Spread by virus-infected droplets that are coughed or sneezed into the air, the flu is contagious. People infected with the flu are contagious as long as they show symptoms (most of the time that means about 1 week for adults, but for children it can mean up to 2 weeks).
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The good news:\n\n1. The cold is most contagious for about first three days of your symptoms.  \n\n2. Saliva is not an efficient means of spread of most cold viruses. Symptomatic people with colds have no detectable virus in their saliva in 90 percent of cases and kissing is not likely to transmit the common cold.\n\nThe not so good news.\n\nHand-to-hand direct contact plays an important role in disease transmission, so if you are contagious just touching another person maybe enough to transmit it.  \n\nThe bottom line, if you still have the cold symptoms, you may pass it to your partner just by being with them.  Kissing will make little difference. Hope that helps.
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it does not "come and go"\n\nit is caused from the epstein barr virus and is known as the kissing disease\nyou could have kissed someone or drank after someone who had, maybe grandchildren who are teenagers have it and don't realize it, you can even catch it from drinking off of public water fountains\nit will make you tired and sick for about a year, maybe longer since you are a little older\nbe very careful and try not to injure any areas on your belly, especially on your left side, because mono causes your spleen to swell, not a big deal, but it might hurt a little bit, so just be careful, ok?\nI hope he gave you good advice on what to do and stuff\n\ngood luck dear :)
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Yes, you can.  I got mono when I was around 10 years old.  Don't know how I got it.  Doctors said it could have even been a drinking fountain.
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Symptoms of mono can vary. I had this when I was 12 years old and was so lethargic (exhausted) I had to be homeschooled! Some of the symptoms you may notice are: \nFatigue/Exhaustion/Lethargy/Weakness/Sore throat/Fever \nSwollen lymph nodes &or swollen tonsils/Headaches/Skin rashes/Poor appetite or loss of appetite \n\nThis from Mayoclinic.com\nWhen to seek medical advice\nIf you've been feeling tired and weak; have had a persistent fever, headache, loss of appetite, rash and muscle aches; and have had swollen lymph nodes, tonsils and spleen — these are strong indications that you have mononucleosis. If rest and a healthy diet haven't resulted in easing your symptoms within a week or two or if your symptoms recur, see your doctor.\nScreening and diagnosis\nYour doctor may suspect mononucleosis based on your signs and symptoms and a physical examination.\n\nIf there's a need for additional confirmation, a Monospot test is generally done to check your blood for antibodies to the Epstein-Barr virus. This is a screening test with a result within a day. But it may not detect the infection during the first week of the illness. Another antibody blood test requires a longer result time, but can detect the disease even within the first week of symptoms. Other blood tests that may be used look for elevated numbers of white blood cells (lymphocytes) or abnormal-looking lymphocytes.\n\nHope this helps! Also if you type mononucleosis into your search engine lots of info will appear. It's not the worst thing that you can have, you will prob sleep a lot and feel like you have a cold that won't go away, I watched every Abbot and Costelo Video available when I had it, it's a very funny very old comedy... Feel Better!
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i don't think so. it takes a few weeks for a herpes infection to set into a new person, so you wouldn't notice blisters in a few days.