ABCNews OnCall+ spoke with experts about some of the popular myths about germs that tend to spread as fast as the bacteria themselves this time of year. Is a dog's mouth cleaner than a person's?

They enter through the mouth, through the skin ... a diarrheal illness accompanied by nausea and fatigue. Under a microscope, the protozoan's adaptations for life in the digestive system are ...

since Antonie van Leeuwenhoek famously reported scraping live bacteria from the inside of his mouth and observing them “very prettily a-moving” under an early microscope in the late 1600s.

A lot has been written and said about the gut microbiome – the community of bacteria ... scraped the inside of his mouth and examined the contents under a microscope. There he found “many ...

"The healthy human mouth is home to a tremendous variety of microbes including viruses, fungi, protozoa and bacteria," he said. "The bacteria are the most numerous - there are 100 million in every ...

Unfortunately for hikers and picnickers enjoying the warmer weather, the new season is prime time for ticks, which can transmit bacteria ... mouth covered in hooks that they use to get under ...

“These guys look at dust particles and fabric fibres and other bits of mess under the microscope ... decontaminated lab so any number of bacteria or microbes or moulds or viruses could have ...