silent carrier
Contagious without symptoms
A silent carrier is a person infected with a disease who shows no symptoms but can transmit it to others.
The term gained widespread use during epidemics when apparently healthy individuals unknowingly spread illness: Silent carriers made the virus difficult to contain.
Also called asymptomatic carrier.
- asymptomaticDiseased without outward signs
- contagiousTransmissible between people
- infectiousAble to spread disease
- transmitterSignal-emitting device
- spreaderTool for distribution
viral shedding · community spread · undetected · hidden · latent · dormant · typhoid · vector · disease vector · host · pathogen · unknowing · symptomless · incubation · incubation period · outbreak · transmission · epidemic