10,000 germ species live in and on healthy people

June 13, 2012, 1:17 am by Associated Press Healthwire

WASHINGTON (AP) -- They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut - enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds....

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