If you wake up one morning and you don't feel good, your arm and legs
hurt, you have a fever and your throat is sore, then you're sick from a
germ. When you get a fever you get hot and that helps kill germs. Did you
know that measles, chicken pox, small pox, and
mumps are all caused by germs? Germs can be anywhere like on a pencil or
fruit. There are other ways they can get in your body such as sneezes, shairing
drinks, and scrapes. Inside your mouth and throat it is always wet and sometimes
germs get stuck in there. But that is as far as they go. Germs are all around,
but not all are harmful. You always have germs. Some are good and some are
bad . If you have no cuts or scrches on your skin, you can get bad germs
sometimes. Two things make you sick: bacteria and viruses. Did you know
viruses are smaller than bacteria? Bacteria is a germ and they can make
you sick. Did you know bacteria will grow? Then white blood cells come.
Blood cells go everwhere. White cells destroy enemies. Yellow stick germs
come into your body and white cells suck them up. If there is enough stick
germs, more and more will come. Yellow stick germs stick to things in your
body.
Louis Pastuer was scientist who studied germs.