Imagine that your nose resembles that world famous waiting room. Instead of people, it's filled with the La Cosa Nostril of bad boy germs, all revved for a chance to wreak havoc on your body - or anyone else you touch. Some germs are hiding out, avoiding extermination by the latest antibiotic drugs. Others are dangerous, nasty, toxic - and bulletproof. The Teflon Dons of the microbe underworld, nothing seems to stop them.
Nothing, it seems, except simple, frequent hand...
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