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What is Incubatory carrier seen in - and explain in detail?
Period of communicability of mumps : Usually 4-6 days before the onset of symptoms and a week or more thereafter. The period of maximum infectivity is just before and at the onset of parotitis. Ref: 25th edition, Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, Page no. 165