: presenting no symptoms of disease
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Not just concussions, but those asymptomatic hits that occur over time, to a high level during a single season.
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Further, there has never been a case reported in medical literature of an otherwise asymptomatic and healthy child who suddenly developed serious respiratory distress or died days after being in water.
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The bacterium is found in the faeces of those infected, as well as a small proportion of people who have recovered but remain asymptomatic carriers.
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About 2 to 5 percent of those infected can become chronic asymptomatic carriers, shedding the bacteria in their feces.
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That said, either infection can also spread when symptoms aren't present thanks to what's known as viral or asymptomatic shedding.
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The 3-foot-long worm is asymptomatic and incubates in people for up to a year before painfully emerging.
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Plus, my cancer was asymptomatic, and the tumor had been chilling in my liver, likely for years, without my noticing.
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In one study, investigators determined 60 percent of children diagnosed were asymptomatic.
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