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The school year is almost here and returning to the classroom can often mean exposures to many different germs. That can be especially difficult for the millions of U.S. children who have asthma.

Hays Earls, a registered nurse in Dallas, Texas, made a TikTok video of an experiment she did to show her three-year-old son how germs stick to our hands and how washing them with soap removes them.

The Germs That Transformed History For eons, epidemics have caused mass deaths and social upheaval, with far-reaching effects on politics, trade, migration, colonization and conquest ...