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Mystery #1Tier 1how germs travel

How exactly does a germ get from a sick person into a healthy one?

You cannot see a germ, yet somehow a cold hops from your friend straight to you. Nobody handed it over on purpose. So how does something far too small to see actually make the trip from one person's body into another's?

A man caught mid-sneeze against a black background, a huge spray of droplets bursting out and hanging in the air
Photo: James Gathany · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

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