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An individual who is a carrier for recessive genetic disorder but does not have symptoms of the disorder is

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This individual is a healthy carrier.


A healthy carrier (sometimes called asymptomatic carrier) refers to a person whose organism is infected by a microorganism (virus, bacteria, parasite) without presenting any clinical manifestation.

This absence of reaction may result either from a weakness of the infectious agent or from the effectiveness of the defenses of the subject.

Nevertheless, a healthy carrier can transmit a disease to other people. This is for example the case of hemophilia or certain genetic pathologies.

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