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Scientists might also use this information to learn how such germs keep their hosts — us — healthy.

And despite years of speculation, nobody has proved Assad has any germ warfare capability at all.

“Those practices did develop out of concerns about germ-sharing about a century ago,” she said.

When asked if the potential for germ-sharing bothered her, she scoffed: “Not at all.”

Eisner, who lives in a city obsessed with health, has noticed that people have gotten quite germ-phobic.

In the meantime, toss out that beef jerky, and bust open that vat of wheat-germ!

There was no doubt thought of his own loss in this question: yet there was, one may hope, a germ of solicitude for the mother too.

A germ flies from a stagnant pool, and the laughing child, its mother's darling, dies dreadfully of diphtheria.

Mr. William Aird, the germ-proof man, has been giving demonstrations in London.

It is reported that last week a germ snapped at him and broke off two of its teeth.

The boy struck him as talented, but nothing made him suspect the germ of a great composer.