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How to use the word germs in a Sentence?

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Why is that a matter of concern? Because it opens up opportunities for these viruses and other germs to be reintroduced into the United States, and to cause outbreaks of disease. The recently concluded measles outbreak in Ohio is an example, the introduction of the poliovirus into New York is an example, and we need to keep our guard up.

William Schaffner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With the aging infrastructure, our aging pipes, there are some new waterborne challenges that have emerged, and those are basically these pathogens or these germs that can live in these protective areas that like to stick to pipes called biofilm pathogens.

Shanna Miko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can get sick from touching your backyard poultry or anything in their environment and then touching your mouth or food and swallowing salmonella germs.

The CDC

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I've taught her that, really, the mask acts as a shield that protects us, i try to keep it as simple as possible that a mask slows the germs from jumping on other people.

Aubrey Marshall

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Her teachers tell her she spits germs at everybody without the mask on, so she comes home and doesn’t want to take the mask off.

Alexis Telep

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When we encounter a bad bacteria, antibiotics are a crucial tool to help us treat infection, and antibiotic resistance happens when the bacteria are no longer responding to the antibiotics that we’ve developed to kill them. And that means that the germs aren’t killed and they continue to grow. And this can have a devastating impact, particularly on certain people in our society.

Jerome Adams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you do not wash your hands properly -- for at least 20 seconds -- especially after using the toilet, as it is full of germs, these can easily be transferred to your towel.

Manal Mohammed

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Towels are not clean as you think and can transmit germs.

Manal Mohammed

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People are still concerned with receiving the germs from the table next to them.

Nick Livanos

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As things get back to normal, that means jovial and happy conversation, loud conversation, people are still concerned with receiving the germs from the table next to them.

Nick Livanos

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Some people said,' I don't care. I do not need to wear a mask,' that is very selfish because you expose your germs to other people. So any mask is good.

Peter Tsai

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Parents are trying very hard to create positive birthday memories, he knows we can't be close to our friends because of the invisible germs.

Emily Goodman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

From the safety of their car, they can take care of their soul while protecting their bodies from germs in this special time.

Father Mateusz Kielarski

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

People just get very anxious when there's so much up in the air and out of control, especially on a college campus in the city where germs run rampant.

Alexandra Tananbaum

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Wearing a surgical mask helps you prevent sharing your germs if you're sick, surgical masks do not seal around the face, so while they offer some protection, it's the N95 mask that offers the most protection.

Saskia Popescu

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Cross-contamination from raw food, undercooking food, hand-washing and spreading germs from raw food, those are the things that contribute to the more than 48 million cases of foodborne illness we have every year in the US.

Ben Chapman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I also wanted to use black folklore, the magic and superstitious part of it, black people believe in magic. Once a woman asked me, Do you believe in ghosts ? I said,' Yes. Do you believe in germs ?' It's part of our heritage.

Toni Morrison

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It is stunning how many times Your Kids touch Your Kids faces and then touch other kids, this is a very touchy-feely demographic, and that's how we share germs. ... And the little ones don't have the same exposure to germs that we do, so until their immune systems get built up, they get sick.

Harley Rotbart

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There is a real delicate balance, though ; we don't want to make Your Kids paranoid, we need to be prudent. Germs, for people who are healthy, really aren't a big deal.

Harley Rotbart

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Rubbing alcohol has long been used in medicine as a disinfectant for skin surfaces and environmental surfaces, it has been generally thought that rubbing alcohol was fairly safe from the emergence of resistance amid susceptible germs. This interesting and carefully done study refutes that assumption.

James Scott

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This research sheds light on how a form of childhood blood cancer might develop, implicating a complex combination of genetics and early exposure to germs, dirt, and illness, we want to assure any parents of a child who has or has had leukaemia, that there's nothing that we know of that could have been done to prevent their illness.

Charles Swanton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Also, take kids on bathroom breaks every hour, and check diapers in a diaper-changing area and not right next to the pool, we all share the water we swim in, but we don't want to share germs, pee or poop.

Michele Hlavsa

Found on CNN
6 years ago

C. auris is still relatively rare in the United States and CDC is working hard to contain its spread, one of the best ways to prevent the spread of germs like C. auris in healthcare settings is good hand hygiene.

Sharon Tsay

Found on CNN
6 years ago

As a foreign traveler personally, I’ve been told that Americans are like newborn babies — very fragile bodies when it comes to germs.

Sarah Krieger

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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