How do we share germs?

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c_bandaid.gif (4973 bytes)Germs are everywhere, but they are so tiny that we cannot see them. There are good germs and bad germs. Bacteria and viruses are two kinds of germs that can make us sick.

c_bandaid.gif (4973 bytes)This is one way that germs can enter your body:
    a student sneezes on your computer,
    germs fly out of the mouth and onto your computer,
    you touch that same computer,
    your eye itches and you rub your eye,
    now germs enter your body through your eye,
    a few days later you feel sick,
    you caught that student's cold.

c_bandaid.gif (4973 bytes)Here are some other ways germs can get into your body:
You can breath in germs from outside and other people.
Germs get in the skin from cuts and scrapes.
You may eat food that has bad germs growing in it.

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