Match the periods of disease with their characteristics:  incubation period prodomal period period of illness period of decline period of convalenscence Word bank   - pathogen begins to decline in number and symptoms begin to abate - signs and symptoms of illness are obvious and severe  - initial signs and symptoms of illness begin to present    - host recovers and returns to a general state of health    - pathogen begins to establish itself in the host, but no signs or symptoms are present

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