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I don’t think of myself as being particularly germophobic. I wash my hands regularly but not obsessively, and I keep the kitchen and bathroom reasonably disinfected. Sometimes, however, I can understand our society’s growing obsession with germs. Based on what I hear on the news, a pandemic often seems just around the corner.
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Goodsell, D.S. (2016). Attack and Defense: Weapons of the Immune System. In: Atomic Evidence. Copernicus, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32510-1_22
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