What’s the technical difference between being immune to a disease and asymptomatic?

Question

In both cases, you don’t suffer from the disease being in your body, but it’s still there. So why would someone be considered one vs the other?

In: Biology

Answer 1

When you’re immune, you’re body is able to fight off and destroy the virus completely. When you’re asymptomatic, you just don’t feel the virus, but it’s still active in your body. In short, when asymptomatic, you’re still contageous, and when immune, you’re not.