These giant plush microbe toys are nothing but huggable. And they won't kill you, either.

We're not exactly sure when it happened, but somewhere between "Ren and Stimpy" and the "Ugly Doll" craze, someone decided that gross is cute.

Sometimes you can get a disease by visiting a gift shop where GIANT Microbes are sold. flickr photo by Anna C. Brandao Alves Good news: Now you can give people sexually transmitted diseases ...

A toy company that make stuffed Ebola viruses has completely sold out of the "uniquely contagious" playthings. Online organisation GIANT Microbes Inc create toys resembling microbes and their ...

A U.S. company had the germ of an idea. Then it multiplied. Now a host of colourful microbes are infecting toy stores across the continent.

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