Do Rats/Animals who carry diseases Suffer from the disease?

Question

I know i know of course animals get sick

but i mean animals that are known for carrying disease like do mosquitos suffer from malaria in some form or are they just so d**n used to it at this stage that they have adapted to it

Answer 1

Carriers are just that.

Answer 2

Carrier animals defiantly suffer from the diseases that carry but not as severely as the final host. This suffering could be very mild to the extent that they can bear it. Fore example. malaria plasmodium carry some developmental stages in the gut of the mosquito. When cyst containing the merozotes rupture this will defiantly affect the mosquito gut.

Answer 3

It depends on whether they are 'carriers' or 'vectors'. Carriers carry the disease and do suffer at least somewhat from the disease. Vectors, on the other hand, carry the disease and are intermediate hosts but do not suffer from the disease.  For example, rabies is carried by bats and they also die from the disease - they are carriers - they die from the affects of the rabies.  Malaria, on the other hand, simply uses a mosquito as a delivery device - the mosquito does not develop malaria and die from it. Malaria must wait for it's warm blooded host to develop and begin to do it's work. In this case, the mosquito is a vector, not a carrier.