The Invisible Threat: Why We Can’t Rely on Symptoms to Detect Contagion

Mother checking daughter's temperature at home, unaware of asymptomatic contagion risks.

The human body is remarkably deceptive when it comes to infectious diseases. We’ve been conditioned to think of illness in terms of visible symptoms: the telltale fever, the persistent cough, the runny nose that signals it’s time to stay home. But this symptom-centric view of contagion represents a dangerous blind spot in our understanding of […]