It is important for healthcare providers to understand how susceptibility and carriers contribute to illness. Which contributory category of susceptibility and carriers is correct?
A) A person may only have passive immunity against exposure to a disease and becomes ill after exposure.
B) People can harbor an infectious agent in their system and not become ill until a certain situation develops.
C) People can be born with a genetic characteristics that make the individual immune to communicable diseases.
D) A person may suspect an illness from a communicable disease and still choose to be involved with other people.

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People can harbor an infectious agent in their system and not become ill until a certain situation develops, which describes carriers who can spread the disease without showing symptoms themselves.

It Is Important for Healthcare Providers to Understand How Susceptibility