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Never mind ordinary germs – what are you going to do when some super-virus comes along that turns your internal organs like liquid shit? George Carlin, You Are All Diseased, HBO 1999
Mum, Anthony’s full of germs. The Royle Family s2e2: Family Lunch, Denise, BBC 1999
At this very moment predators invisible to the naked eye are infiltrating your world ... the dangerous world of killer germs. Top Ten Killer Germs, Discovery
Bacteria, viruses and parasites all have one thing in common: they are germs. ibid.
10) Group A Streptococcus: which causes flesh-eating disease ... up to a third of those cases results in death ...
9) MRSA: ‘probably the most versatile pathogen.’ expert
8) West Nile Virus: discovered Uganda 1937 ... There’s no cure ...
7) Plasmodium Falciparum: the parasite that causes Malaria ...
6) Influenza Virus: the Flu can kill, and some strains are profoundly deadly ... We need new vaccines every year ...
5) Bacillus Anthracis: which causes the acute disease Anthrax ...
4) Variola Virus: which causes Smallpox ...
3) Versinia Pestis: which causes the Bubonic Plague ...
2) HIV ... taken approximately 25 million lives since 1975 ...
1) Ebola Virus: nearly a 100% fatality rate ... There's no cure. ibid.
New Rule: Instead of killing 99.9% of germs, Lysol has to just go ahead and kill them all. Why spare the remaining 0.1%? So they can return to their villages and tell the other germs, ‘Dude, do not mess with Lysol.’ Bill Maher, The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass