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Thanks. If they in fact can't transmit, then this is OK. If they can or, even worse, have a long latency period and will show symptoms in 2 weeks, that is ver

by btilly 7y ago

Thanks. If they in fact can't transmit, then this is OK. If they can or, even worse, have a long latency period and will show symptoms in 2 weeks, that is very, very scary. Our best tool for diseases like this is contact tracing. And asymptomatic carriers make that very hard. (Useless trivia, the first documented asymptomatic carrier who was infectious was a short order cook named Mary Mallon. She is better known as Typhoid Mary.)

underwater 7y ago
She wasn't a short order cook, she cooked for a number of families.
- btilly 7y ago
  She was both. When she was first identified, she cooked for a number of families. The outbreak that got her put away for life was due to working as a cook at Sloane Hospital for Women. I cannot immediately find record of her being a short order cook specifically. However that is my recollection from https://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-Trust-Collapse-Global-Public/dp/0786884401 https://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-Trust-Collapse-Global-Public...
  - Zod666 7y ago
    There's a good docu on her story. It might be on YouTube.