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More scary than Halloween: this month in germophobia microbophobia

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in News
Posted on October 31, 2014April 22, 2015

It seems that any time a holiday comes around in the US, the press starts to ramp up the writing of stories about evil microbes that are lurking all around us. And Halloween appears to be no exception. I am now planning on referring to this attitude as “microbophobia” rather than “germophobia” because to some …

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