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3 unusual facts about Disease carrier


Disease carrier

Genetic carrier, a person or organism that has inherited a genetic trait or mutation, but displays no symptoms

Asymptomatic carrier, a person or organism infected with an infectious disease agent, but displays no symptoms

The Long Loud Silence

Only those rare individuals with natural resistance have survived, but since they are carriers of the disease, the entire eastern third of the country has been quarantined.



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Yeshiva University Medical Ethics Society

The Program for Jewish Genetic Health of Yeshiva University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine has sponsored Jewish Genetic Disease carrier screenings on YU campuses exclusively to YU studentsat a fee.