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Originally Posted by coffeebean
I didn't know that. In fact, I just Googled if there are asymptomatic carriers of seasonal flu. I'm shocked at what I found out.......50% of influenza infections are asymptomatic. So.........maybe I really have had the flu in my lifetime and all this time I thought I never had the flu. Never had a flu shot either.
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There's a mixup in terminology. If someone "has the flu" they are infected, and sick. If someone is an asymptomatic carrier, they aren't sick. They are literally a carrier, nothing more or less. They carry the virus in their persons, and spread it to whoever/whatever their facial orifice moisture lands on when they sneeze cough clear their throat blow their nose cry talk.
So if you've never been sick with the flu - you've never had the flu. But you STILL might have been a carrier. It's not common though, for someone to be an asymptomatic carrier of the H1N1 influenza virus. Most people who are infected have at least some symptoms.
Coronavirus is a whole other animal. It's not an influenza virus - it's completely different.
The "common cold" is a coronavirus by the way.