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Differentiate between carrier and vector.

A vector is an organism who passes on a disease without getting sick. A vector actively transmits an infectious agent between infected and susceptible vertebrates. ... The true carrier, which is an infected individual capable of disseminating the infectious agent but which never exhibits clinical signs of disease.


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