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You're conflating asymptomatic with pre-symptomatic. The former means you never develop symptoms. The latter means you are about to get sick but aren't currentl

• tripletao 3y ago
  That HIV patient was indeed near-certain to be symptomatic later, but Typhoid Mary was permanently asymptomatic. That's unusual for typhoid, but for other pathogens (e.g. cytomegalovirus) most infected patients are permanently asymptomatic, with only a small minority of patients showing symptoms: https://www.cdc.gov/cmv/congenital-infection.html https://www.cdc.gov/cmv/congenital-infection.html Your claims are inconsistent with at least a century of boring, uncontroversial medicine. I don't know whether you're doing it knowingly, but you're closely repeating the arguments of Kary Mullis, who was clearly smart (he invented PCR!) but not exactly reliable (he denied that HIV causes AIDS! he saw a talking, fluorescent raccoon!).